"Poetry, I told my friends, is still where I feel happiest and freest [...] For true creative freedom, I need forms that demand compression, restraint." Read More
"[...] it takes hours of mental wrangling every morning to get over myself and produce, to convince myself that what I’m writing has potential and meaning and is not just the expression of a hot-headed delusion." Read More
"[...] I wish Pride could be something closer to Publishers Clearing House, where someone shows up at the door of a closeted teen living in some oppressive Middle American state with an oversized check and whisks them away." Read More
"I feel like my life is totally constructed by jobs: the freelance ones that pay the bills, the 'literary' ones that don’t really pay but that I feel hold me together." Read More
"This is how I want to rock shows—with amazing support, collaborating with people in the cities I’m visiting who are making magic and getting to share it with new folks [...]" Read More
