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 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.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

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

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 being a poet, period, is isolating.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.