She wants to know if there are certain topics that we
like to write about or that keep coming up.
I tend at, least right now because I'm still
a pretty young poet, I tend to write about again
the things I wonder about.
So it is a lot about my reservation community.
Yeah.
It is a lot about language, because I do language work.
There's only three people who speak
my language left in the world.
And so, that's what I do for my daily job.
So, language and words are-- which I'm lucky,
you know, because I can run back and forth between that.
But it is just whatever happens to pop up, you know.
And that's what happens when you give yourself time.
And time each day or a couple of times a week,
you'll start writing about all of these things
because you're connected to all of them, you know.
Even if right now you don't realize it and you think
this might not matter to me, but you'll
start to really find out what you're
thinking underneath all the surface of Snooki
and all of those things.
So.
Snooki can be a poem.
In the right hands, in the right hands, Snooki can be a poem.
One of the biggest breakthroughs for me
as a poet after graduate school was I
really just stopped thinking about what the poems should be
or should be about.
So, I stopped thinking about subject matter.
And I made language king and queen.
So, anything that interested in, a phrase, a word, an image,
if that made me perplex, confuse me,
it made me perk up on the page, that's what I followed.
And that showed me--
once I started following language,
I found my subject matter.
And so, for me, language is everything.