I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.
I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.