I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny..

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one..

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a….

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular..

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever..

I like the way the prose and poetry interact..

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian..

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation..

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinkin….

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all..

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween..

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward gre….

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten..

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it..

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted a….

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class..

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body..

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries..

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals..

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world..

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals..