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.

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

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

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

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

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