In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

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

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

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.

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?

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.