All Art Is Exploitation.

I Grew Up In A Storytelling Culture, A Tribal Culture, But Also In An American Storytelling Culture.

That's One More Thing People Don't Know About Indians: We Love To Talk Dirty.

The Form I Most Enjoy Writing Is The Sonnet Or Sonnet-like Forms, Where You Have A - You Know, Three Stanzas Or Two Stanzas That Lead Into A Concluding Couplet.

A Really Good Stand-up Comic Is A Poet; It's About The Use Of Language. It Can Be Really Poetic. And I Like Politically Conscious Comedy.

There Isn't A Lot Of Poverty Literature In The Young-adult World. And I Don't Know Why That Is, But I Think Certainly I Felt A Gap.