Rachel Zucker

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

— Rachel Zucker

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

— Rachel Zucker

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

— Rachel Zucker

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

— Rachel Zucker

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

— Rachel Zucker

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

— Rachel Zucker

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of…

— Rachel Zucker

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

— Rachel Zucker

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

— Rachel Zucker

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

— Rachel Zucker

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

— Rachel Zucker

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

— Rachel Zucker

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

— Rachel Zucker

I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in…

— Rachel Zucker

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc.…

— Rachel Zucker

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of…

— Rachel Zucker

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and…

— Rachel Zucker

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without…

— Rachel Zucker

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

— Rachel Zucker

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

— Rachel Zucker

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

— Rachel Zucker

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

— Rachel Zucker

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

— Rachel Zucker

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including…

— Rachel Zucker

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

— Rachel Zucker

“a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier”

— Rachel Zucker

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

— Rachel Zucker

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

— Rachel Zucker

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

— Rachel Zucker

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

— Rachel Zucker

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the…

— Rachel Zucker

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

— Rachel Zucker

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

— Rachel Zucker