I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.