Thanks to Poetry Society of America for inviting me to talk about Diurne (Tupelo Press, 2019)! You can read the first poem from the collection and my reflections on its composition here.

In Diurne, I try (and often fail) to develop a method I call “impersonal intimacy,” offering to the reader different types of personal information—credit card #, address, email, as well as family histories, personal insecurities, and confessions to see what might register as expressions of lyric subjectivity and wondering which is the more intimate: my data or my desires. Or how one expresses or suppresses the other.