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.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

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.

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

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 love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

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.