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.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

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.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

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.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.