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

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

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

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

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

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.