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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.