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

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

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).