The handsome Stephen Mills interviewed me for his new monthly interview series featuring emerging LGBT poets on his blog, Joe’s Jacket. Click on over to find out whether or not I write poems in the nude, how “anagram me” can be your new pick-up line, and which luscious-locked actor would play me in my bio-pic.
Here’s a preview:
S: Let’s backtrack for a minute to your writing process. What is it like? For example, do you write daily? Does it have to be quiet? Do you write by hand or on the computer? Do you write naked? I’m just trying to get a good mental picture.
M: I’m usually clothed. There is one poem I wrote naked on a hotel bed in Miami while watching the sun rise, but that was a few years ago. Oh, and I’ve been told my work makes certain readers want to get naked when they read it.
S: I think I fall into that “certain readers” category, though I don’t just want to, I often do. If I see your name in the table of contents, I start stripping.
M: Excellent. My poems are meant to be read naked in bed, and if you’re lucky to have someone with you, whispered in that person’s ear.
Hilarious. And noted.