I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.