I am interested in where lyric and narrative intersect, in working with the strengths in each of these modes. I am interested in white space and line breaks, in the way silence creates room in which words collide and ricochet. I am interested in the kind of tension that can be made visually and linguistically with letters placed on the page. And I am interested in sound, in how the repetition of sounds creates density and intensity within lines, stanzas, and entire poems. Recently, I have begun work in visual poetry, bringing collage images and found text together to form something new. I teach in the Arkansas Writer's MFA Program at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, AR, where I direct the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference.