I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

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

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

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.

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.