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

I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.

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

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

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.