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

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.

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.