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

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

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

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

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.