Why I Write Poetry

I often end up telling my students that the most interesting poets are the ones who read as widely as possible, all their different influences eventually being blended together in a voice that could only be theirs.

It perhaps seems strange for a poet to say, but my main influences as a poet are actually novelists.

her seminal book Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), Sara Ahmed contends that “race [is] a rather queer matter”