One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.