poetry mini interviews

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? The first really important poet to me was the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen whose l...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?  I teach high school students and what I tell them is that poetry tells you ...

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

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? This is a great question. I feel like I understood more about poetry fifteen year...

Chris Banks is a Canadian poet and author of five collections of poems, most recently Midlife Action Figure by ECW Press 2019. His firs...