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.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

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.

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.

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.