I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.

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.

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

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

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

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'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.