I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we love, artists who are doing the work, so that artists have a more solid foundation upon which to make art?

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.