Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.