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.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

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've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

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've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.