poetry mini interviews

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?  Sharon Olds, Joy Harjo, Ocean Vuong, Yun Dong-Ju. 

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Precision. As poetry is often about compression rather than expansion, a poet...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?  Once I write the ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? A couple of years ago, I asked one of my poetry mentors this same question. She chuckled and told m...

Jaeyun Yoo is a Korean-Canadian poet and psychiatrist living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peopl...