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

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

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

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.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.