1. What or who gives you inspiration and perspiration?

Photographs. I confront the image/idea in a photo with the image/idea in some myth or science book.

2. Have you always wanted to write, or did you have a secret desire for something else, like spelunking?

Not sure how or why writing took over.

3. Do awards and accolades make you swoon? Have there been any that you're particularly swoon-y about that you've gotten?

Have yet to find out.

4. When you're not leaving your poetic footprint, what else in the world makes you warm and fuzzy?

Till retirement I practiced law.

5. Give me names. Who are the best new poets, in your opinion?

Not sure they're new: Neruda, Alexiandre, Celan, Sachs

6. Best of the Net or Pushcart? Which matters more and why?

Not sure either matters.

7. Then and now. What poem made you start writing and what poem do you absolutely love right this very moment?

Actually, I have no favorites.

8. Are online poetry 'zines a crushing blow to traditional print 'zines, or are they the meat and potatoes of the poetry world now? Also, which do you prefer?

I prefer online. Wider readership and more lasting.

9. Where do you see yourself and your poems in five years?

Pretty much the same as now.

10. What are the ingredients for a tasty poem?

Grief, loneliness, despair. Oh, add some great loss and somewhere in the process stir in Death.