poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? Namely, the work now is my dissertation. For that I’m working on resuscitating my writing spirit, which means atten...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? One night when I lived in Brooklyn I drew a hot bath and read C.D. Wright’s Steal Away...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? It takes me a long while to identify the subject of a poem. I’m not exploratory; I’m s...

How do you know when a poem is finished? The poem’s resonance touches the end of my feeling. Then the momentum in my brain shifts, and I fal...

Alicia Wright is from Rome, Georgia, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Paris Review , Ecotone , and jubilat , among others. S...