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

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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

I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating things clearly or dramatically. This whole course is trying to say there are millions of ways to approach writing a poem.

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

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since I can't always tell they're failures until later... or I don't want to admit that they are.