I Want to Write a Poem for You

Give me words, a topic, a question, phrases, images, anything you’d like a poem about that’s written directly to you.

Writing poems is one of my all-time favorite things to do. That’s why I took out a stupid amount of loans to get my MFA in poetry from San Francisco State, and why I’ve written two books of poems, one book of almost poems, and my newest collection that will be released this year, What Did You Expect to Happen?

When I sit to write a poem, I invoke my muses, and the language comes from somewhere before or beyond my conscious mind. So I love how poetry makes me feel like I’m accessing regions of mind, heart, soul, the ether, the void, the flux, intimately, palpably, in a way that philosophy does not.