It’s tempting to respond with a page-long list. To never stop changing my thinking, that’s my wish. Influences on my early writing include Emily Dickinson, Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton, Jorge Luis Borges, Basho, Robert Lax, Amiri Baraka, Lorine Niedecker, Raymond Roseliep, Gustaf Sobin. I’ve also learned so much from reading Paul Celan, Rae Armantrout, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Robinson, Fred Moten, and many others.
Connection to authors I’ve come to know through Ornithopter Press means the world to me. Their poetry has changed my appreciation of poetics, and how could it not? To read holding others in mind, and then to reach a concerted understanding, and common cause, is transformational. To think I’ve had the good fortune to publish such brilliant people—I’m grateful.
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