Interviews

I want the work to sing on the page and, if someone were to read it aloud, sing as it exists in the air.

There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.

This is not a lifetime achievement, it’s just my first collection of some poems that I love. And hopefully, there will be more.

What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?

I thought I was writing an essay, and then people kept showing up in my memory and talking and demanding to be included.

The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.

To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.

I usually go into a story with a feel for a situation or a character or a place more than an actual storyline.

I think everyone changes. I feel a lot more steadfast in who I am and what I make.