It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.