poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important?  For me, poetry can often make us see something, realize something, discover something, just in the reading of a sh...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I don’t know that I want to compare poetry to other art forms in such a binar...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers’ group that you work ideas and poems with? First it trots ar...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes, it has. I used to like writing about emotions—or perhaps I thought that poetr...

Carolyne Van Der Meer is a journalist, public relations professional and university lecturer whose articles, essays, short stories and poem...