poetry mini interviews

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? Mina Loy. Mina Loy. Mina Loy. ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Finding the words. Literally finding them. I look through so many different ki...

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 do have ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When there is at least one “special” grouping of words in it, by which I mean a phrase I’ve...

Emily Izsak is the author of Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem (Signature Editions, 2017) and Stickup (shuffaloff/Eternal Net...