"I’M A LIVING, BREATHING CLICHÉ FOR WRITING THIS, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT POETRY MEANS TO ME." 

"To say it means anything would imply that I write poetry to express meaning, or that poetry is inherently meaningful. I don’t know if I want to give poetry that much credit. Plays and novels are so bound by scary things like character, motivation and narrative propulsion. We are experiencing stories about ‘real’ people, so their worlds need to make sense if we want them to be satisfying. I don’t read poems to engage in a world that makes sense, or even to be satisfied. I read poems to see new angles and feel sloppy, unmitigated feelings through language alone. If a poem is successful, it will make me feel multiple feelings at once and leave me a bit pleasantly confused, like when I shiver in a hot shower. I don’t know why that happens, but it’s pretty exhilarating when it does."