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

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.