The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about ….

I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).' I got spun out by th….

I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be ….

The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't….

One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myse….

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way..

That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's ….

I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about what language actually means bef….

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years. There is no way I would hav….

Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over th….

One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Sta….