Curtis Fox at the Poetry Foundation asked me to talk about the New Motherhood Poem for his podcast, Poetry Off the Shelf. I had the delight of walking through some amazing work by Carrie Fountain and Kathryn Nuernberger. I love being able to spread the word about great...

Part of the thrill of writing poems is that you never know who they're going to reach, and how. A man named Fred Birchman contacted me recently to say he was moved by my poem, "Transmission"--so much so that he decided to make an original short film from one of the poe...

Still in some disbelief that I have a poem in the New York Times Magazine today! A million thanks to Natasha Trethewey. Even the comments online are smart!

Read it here.

My new essay, "The Warmth of a Messy Page" is up at the Poetry Foundation website. 

"A sculptor’s initial job is to scavenge a usable piece of stone. It’s unwieldy, but it gets the materials on the table; maybe the sculptor is even able to make the first blunt cuts to...