When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).

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

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.