poetry mini interviews

I came to poetry after a long career as a public-interest lawyer, after a life-threatening illness, and after my children were fully grown a...

How does a poem begin?   A poem can begin so many ways: an overheard conversation on the street, a memory, good or bad, an obsession. A poem...

Why is poetry important?  There are many angles from which to look at the importance of poetry. As someone who spent much of my career as a ...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? My first response to this question was...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? The way my poetry ...

Elizabeth J. Coleman is the editor of Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She is the author of two poetry collections, ...