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

To be a poet you have to experiment.

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

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

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

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

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.