There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.

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

I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

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

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

I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.

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).