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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.

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

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.