I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

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

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.

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

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.