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 love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

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.

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.