poetry mini interviews

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Recreating a feeling that doesn’t have specific content.

Why is poetry important?  Poems make structures graspable by the eye.

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? At first I knew I was playing with language to make ideas I didn’t have yet. Now...

What are you working on? I’m organizing a manuscript focused on the feeling of being a broken-down machine tethered to a fence that is, ho...

Dale Tracy is the author of With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017); the chapbooks Celebrat...