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.

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

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

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.

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

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