poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? It begins with a problem, a feeling, an issue that boils around inside me.  I build a train track on the digital floo...

Why is poetry important?  I don’t know why poetry has to defend itself—novelists aren’t asked to prove fiction’s worth but poets routinely h...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? e.e.cummings. A poem like somewhere i ...

What other (poetry) books have you been (thinking about) reading lately? Jordan Abel’s Nishga , Doireann Ní Ghriofa’s A Ghost in the Throat ...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? A poem can be tiny yet consume one’s thinking for years. A poem unfolds its a...

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 love discussing ...

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head , winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence and nominated f...