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

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

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 being a poet, period, is isolating.