Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

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

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.

To be a poet you have to experiment.

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

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

I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.