Occupation: Poet Birth: 1961
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song."….
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was writing those books. Those ….
I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are..
For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering to….
Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound,….
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories..
If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital ….
Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. ….
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a pre….
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and y….
I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins..
If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive..
I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discours….
How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly….
I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to b….
What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never re….
Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me. Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a….
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and ….
We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to a….
Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me ….
New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. T….