There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

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.

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

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.