poetry mini interviews

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?  Erin Mouré: be weird, have fun, use all the words, get furious, cut and paste. Hilary...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?  My work usually e...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Like in a sonnet or a romantic relationship, once there is a reversal or a twist, it’s over. Like a...

How did you first engage with poetry? Books were certainly important in my household - my mother was a high school English teacher, my aunt ...

Carla Barkman : I’m a family physician and writer living in Regina, Saskatchewan with teenaged boys and too many cats. My poetry has appear...