When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

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.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.