poetry mini interviews

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes, I would say it’s changed completely. I started out reading T.S. Eliot and Wal...

How does a poem begin? I work incessantly on words, wordplay, invented words, word combinations and inflections that delight me. Most of the...

Why is poetry important?  Poetry is increasingly important, because, with the proliferation of general opinion and subreddits and comment th...

How important is music to your poetry? Music and poetry are inextricable, because each word sounds a certain way. Even printed poetry conve...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Close-reading Emily Dickinson in grad school changed my sense of what language can do....

Aaron Belz has published four book-length collections of poetry, most recently Soft Launch , which D.A. Powell described as “a delicious se...