I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.