1. Who are you reading right now?
I just finished Gould’s Book of Fish, before that A Brief History of Seven Killings. An Andrea Camilleri novel (I forget which one), set in Sicily, for R&R!! Poetry: Pamela Harrison and David Sullivan. I just bought The Sound and the Fury, having seen a superb production last year in NYC.
2. Do you write on paper or use your computer to generate a first draft?
I let things rattle around in my head, often for quite a long time. Then I write on paper: a scrap, a notebook, or sitting down at a proper desk. I resist putting it into the computer, because it looks “finished” when it isn’t. Then many revisions.
3. What books/authors do you keep coming back to?
Seamus Heaney, Alice Fulton, Wanda Syzmborska—and of course Robert Frost is always in my head.
4. Are you working on a larger project right now?
I have a title: Explanatory Value. A number of poems I’m not yet happy with.
5. What inspires you?
Visual, visual, visual. But what to make of what I see? Meaning and metaphor must kick in. And of course, the usual things: love and death.
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