Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

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

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

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

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.