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.

I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.

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).

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 would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

To be a poet you have to experiment.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.