My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
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Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.
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I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
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With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
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There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.
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Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.
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Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
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I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
