Essays

Literary Hub – “I’ve been using my writing to hustle a life: a place to live, a salary, some measure of stability. But poetry resists those interests. It’s not about hustling. It’s not about productivity. It’s not even, in the end, about making anything.”

Literary Hub – “The only way to get him down on the page is to haul him hand over hand out of that place I can access only when I don’t insist— like that rift between sleeping and waking, where reality and invention have equal gravity.”