Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

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.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

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 have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.