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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

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

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.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

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