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

There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.

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

I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.

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

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.