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.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

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

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.