I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.
I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them.
Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to worldnational events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I can't deny the urge to write about such events. It takes me a while to gather the evidence, you know?
Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
Winning and losing is a part of democracy.
I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.