Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

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

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

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.