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

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

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

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

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.

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

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.