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.

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

Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on AM 532 and the next it's on FM 92.8.

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

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

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.

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.