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

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

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

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since I can't always tell they're failures until later... or I don't want to admit that they are.

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