Eileen Myles

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.