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

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.

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.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

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