poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? Currently, a collection of poems engaging with my experience growing up in the Pentecostal church, plus witchcraft...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I’m delighted to have been reading my friend Alessandra Naccarato’s debut book Re-Ori...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? I find poetry—especially my own—to be very slippery. The words themselves don’t alway...

How do you know when a poem is finished? What I’m really familiar with is the intangible sense that a poem is not yet finished and has inst...

Estlin McPhee is a writer, magic-maker, and collective organizer whose first chapbook of poems, Shapeshifters , was published by Rahila’s...