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Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. 1971

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Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

Topics: Girl, Halloween, Mean

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I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

Topics: Halloween, Dressing Up, Remember

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

Topics: Halloween, Doors, Stranger

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

Topics: Hate, Halloween, I Hate

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

Topics: Dark, Views, World

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Editing, Fragmentation, Stream Of Consciousness

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

Topics: Thinking, Trying, Movement

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

Topics: Animal, Complicated Relationship, Humans

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

Topics: Animal, Fascinated

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

Topics: Thinking, Animal, World

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

Topics: Prayer, Book, Memorable, Girlhood

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

Topics: Writing, Subway

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Topics: Writing, Students

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Topics: Female, Body, Female Body

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

Topics: Struggle, Silent, Accepting

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

Topics: Mother, Anxiety, Injury, Head Injuries

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

Topics: Fall, People, Laughing, Head Injuries

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

Topics: Artist, Comedian, Process

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

Topics: Jobs, Important, Depth

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

Topics: Mother, School, Advice

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

Topics: Writing, Poet, Should

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

Topics: Thinking, Class, Littles

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

Topics: Animal, Kitten, Bites

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

Topics: Frustrated, Narrative, Sometimes

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

Topics: Survival, Essentials, Underrated

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

Topics: Prose And Poetry, Way, Prose

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

Topics: Husband, Ice, Keys

I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

Topics: Halloween, Dressing Up, Self

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

Topics: Thinking, Terror, Related

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

Topics: Too Much, Etc, I Love Food

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Topics: Sugar, Satisfying

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

Topics: World, Influence

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

Topics: People, Dresses

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

Topics: Animal, Wish, Longing

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

Topics: Writing, Currents, Situation

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