poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? Music is the most important element of my poetry, perhaps because I am a musician manqué. It is proba...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? The books on my desk are Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle , Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Ky...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Michael Benedikt’s anthology, The Poetry of French Surrealism , which I discovered as ...

How did you first engage with poetry? I was born in Amherst, Massachusetts; hence I wish I could say that Emily Dickinson was my first tutel...

Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire , for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award fro...