poetry mini interviews

What are you working on?  Bodies - My husband has epilepsy, lung issues and Parkinson’s, and I have considered creating a microchap with poe...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Song,” one of th...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?  So many! Kenneth Koch and Frank O’Hara – they opened me to the notion that you can ha...

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 get a lot of tip...

How does a poem begin? Sometimes with a random phrase that pops into my mind where there is a melody to the sound, almost song-like. Sometim...

Deborah Rosch Eifert ( @EifertPoetry ) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of the newly released chapbook Sewn from Water, fro...