I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.

The cheapest, most effective way to connect with others is to look them in the eye.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'