There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.

As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

All memory is fiction.