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

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.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

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

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

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.