Favorite authors:
Kay Ryan, James Wright, Kati Peterson, Louise Gluck, John Ashbery, Marianne Moore, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ocean Vuong, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Tracy Smith, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Lucille Clifton, Frank O'Hara, Emily Dickinson, Terrance Hayes, William Blake, Pablo Naruda, William Wordsworth, Yi-Young Lee, W.H. Auden, Denise Levertov, Robert Pinsky, Langston Hughes, Richard Wilbur, Kenneth Koch, Laurie Anderson Alford, Walt Whitman, Abby Cobby Eckermann, A.R. Ammons, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, A.E. Stallings, Gary Snyder, Robert Hass, Adrienne Rich, Hank Lazer, W.S. Merwin