Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

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

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

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