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.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

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

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.

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 let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.