I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

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

Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on AM 532 and the next it's on FM 92.8.

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

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

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