The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on..

The world makes liars of us all..

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed..

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability..

It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the wa….

I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that m….

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of firework….

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature ….

I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a liv….

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, ….

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing..

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandf….

You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impo….

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them..

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out,….

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path..

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable..

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of b….

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access a….

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning..

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with ….