I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

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