I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I don't write free verse poems - mostly because I can't. But I am interested in the musical effects achievable with free verse."