I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

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

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

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.