Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

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

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

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

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.