Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean..

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unles….

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, t….

I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, ….

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just….

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them..

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm a….

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works i….

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever..

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up..

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depen….

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide..

I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time….

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking o….

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems..

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read..

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day..

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry..

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor..

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker..