I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.