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

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

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

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

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

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 thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.