Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.