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

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

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

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?

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 write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating things clearly or dramatically. This whole course is trying to say there are millions of ways to approach writing a poem.