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

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

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

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

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

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.