In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

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

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.

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

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.