The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...