I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

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

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

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

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.

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