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.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

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.

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

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.