Rachel Zucker
Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.Collection: Girl
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.Collection: Halloween
I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.Collection: Halloween
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.Collection: Hate
I like the way the prose and poetry interact.Collection: Prose And Poetry
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.Collection: Thinking
I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.Collection: Dark
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.Collection: Struggle
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.Collection: Survival
When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.Collection: Mean
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.Collection: Animal
I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.Collection: Animal
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.Collection: Thinking
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.Collection: Prayer
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.Collection: Writing
I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.Collection: Artist
I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.Collection: People
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.Collection: Jobs
In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.Collection: Mother
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.Collection: Too Much
Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.Collection: Sugar
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.Collection: Writing
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.Collection: Writing
Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.Collection: World
It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.Collection: Writing
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.Collection: Animal
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.Collection: Thinking
I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.Collection: Animal
I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.Collection: Frustrated
I think humor and terror are very closely related.Collection: Thinking
One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.Collection: Mother
I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.Collection: Husband
I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.Collection: Halloween
I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.Collection: Fall
My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.Collection: Female