"A Very Real and Open Window": A Conversation with Rob Taylor for EVENT

I had the most engaging conversation with Rob Taylor for EVENT—all about “This is Fine” energy and restructurings and poetry mentors—and then forgot to post about it! For shame! Please read Rob’s generous questions and my rambling answers. This interview was a gift I’m still savouring.

“The making of the book was one of concentric circles of vulnerability for me: I started with subjects I was content to share, and then I ran out of safe things to talk about and had to wade into the next layer of exposure, and so on. Lift feels like a very real and open window to some of the parts of myself I’m still learning to like, but if someone were to climb through to their own discoveries—then the discomfort would be worth it.”