I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.