Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.