“They’re talking about real stuff, and sometimes it’s funny and sometimes you’re not sure you should be laughing, and poetry also so often lives in that same kind of in-between, uncomfortable space.”
“Your poems are a product of that conflict between the seeds you plant and what you actually cultivate.”
“I am the assemblage of both my memory and the ones that contest it.”
“There are both so many words and not enough for this moment.”
“I began to feel an urgency, not only in the theoretical power of poetry but in our collective power as poets.”
“Poetry is a way . . . to turn the language on itself again and again.”
