Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

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 like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.