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

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.

Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

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 think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

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

People who are too uptight make me nervous.