If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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

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