Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.

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

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

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

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