The New Yorker declared that your poems resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead. The Wall Street Journal dubbed it kind of a war sack approach to reading newspapers. Poems are they they're like the original viral memes, you know, like a poem travels at transport. You can clip a mountain, put them on your refrigerator. Someone sends me a picture and they're like, I put one of your pieces up on the fridge. Well, they want to live with it.
Debbie talks with Austin Kleon, who describes himself as ‘a writer who draws’.