poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? I don’t know if there is a singular answer to this question, but I do know that the importance of poetry in my life...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Having served as a book reviews editor for several years and as a regular book reviewe...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? The way a poem ent...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Until college I did not have any formal training or instruction in reading and wri...

Alyse Bensel is the author of Rare Wondrous Things: A Poetic Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Green Writers Press, 2020), and three chapb...