I am not a big reader to begin with.

I am not a good cue card reader.

Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.