My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

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.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.