When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

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

To be a poet you have to experiment.