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

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

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

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

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.