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Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.


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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.



I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.

I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.



The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.



I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.



Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.



One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.



One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.



I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.



I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.



I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.





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