I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

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

I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems. The only problem there is that a lot of the time these are being talked about in confessional modes.

Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

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

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.