poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? In terms of writing, several in-progress manuscripts: The Lost is an excavation. It’s the book I didn’t want to ...

How does a poem begin? With sound. I write every morning in my journal. Most of what I write is just about the act of writing. Pen to paper...

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 cat, Stir Fry...

Why is poetry important? Danielle Vogel defines language as: “a communal lung that holds and remembers all things through us. … A neural in...

Why is poetry important? Our culture inflicts so much violence on language and attention. Poetry (to build on Yusef Komunyakaa’s idea) is t...

Daniela Naomi Molnar’s work asks how to live in the ecotone of now/here, on the brink of socioecological collapse/rebirth. She works acro...