poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? For me, it’s important because there’s nothing else I know how to do that I can give to the world. I always wanted ...

How important is music to your poetry? Extremely important, even when it might seem it’s not. Very often, the sound of something is how a po...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? The answer is different depending on w...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I’m not actually sure that there’s a form that can’t capture the same things ...

Andrew McSorley is the author of What Spirits Return (Kelsay Books, 2019). A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Southern I...