True or not, how important is narrative (defined in the broadest possible way so as to include a kind of event-based narrative, but also the kind of emotional/intellectual narrative becoming more prevalent today) to your work?

I would say that narrative is perhaps the most important strain to 90% of my work. While there appears to be a move toward poetry for the sake of words alone, I believe this sucks the proverbial "heart" from a piece. In my opinion, it is an absolute mix of sound and narrative that creates the best poetry.

Have you ever yet run up against anything you wanted to write but couldn’t work it out as a poem? If not, what stretches has this required from you &, if so, where are the city limits for Po-Town?

With time, I have been able to write about just about everything ... but for me, I need that time to bring perspective. A great number of my poems deal with a particularly devastating relationship that I had in my teen years. While poems stemming from that event flooded my collection for the next couple years, it wasn't until significantly afterwards that I was able to write the definitive poem from that era of my life.