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

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

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

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.

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 think with my blood.

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

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

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

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.