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

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

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

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

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

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