I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

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

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

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