Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.