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

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.

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

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 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.

That's science fiction shit, " "It's only fiction until science catches up.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking!

The past is dead except for the life you give it

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.