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.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

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

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

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

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.