As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

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.

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.