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.

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

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

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 love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

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