I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.