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

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.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

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

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 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.