poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important?  Writing a good poem means capturing truth through language. To do that, you have to avoid cliché and you need to...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? It depends on what I’m correcting agai...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? For me, one of the challenges of writing poetry is that a poet needs to use language...

How important is music to your poetry? Very! When I first began writing I wanted to be a novelist, maybe because I wrongly believed that wri...

Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyo...