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

I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now.

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.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

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