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

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

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

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

I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.

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