People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.