I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

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.

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.

To be a poet you have to experiment.

I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.