I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.