Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.