I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

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.

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since I can't always tell they're failures until later... or I don't want to admit that they are.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.