Occupation: Poet Birth: March 28, 1976
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the qu….
I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different em….
I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird..
I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's not that I want to be, but it….
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating, too. No one really ….
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected….
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or ….
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth bo….
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to….
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functiona….