If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

I do a lot of readings.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.