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

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

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

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.