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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.