poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? I grew up in transit which meant long trips filled with country music and books-on-tape. One of my ea...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I ask my students this very question. For me, poetry is an interactive art fo...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Mercenary as it may sound, I think of what Macbeth told his hired assassins on the eve of Banquo’s ...

How did you first engage with poetry? Legend has it my mother read poetry to me every night I was in her womb, so I’d like to think verse wa...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of t...