Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

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

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

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

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.

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

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.