Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, ema….

I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor..

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear..

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author..

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate ….

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems..

I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, ….