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.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

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

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

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

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

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.