I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.