poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? What a giant question to put in a mini-interview! Here is a very partial answer. One reason for poetry (and perhaps...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I take this question to be about how you know when a poem is “done,” not a question about how you k...

How important is music to your poetry? Very, I hope. But perhaps what I am after when I fit words into verse is something just shy of music....

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Danusha Lameris’s Bonfire Opera . Michael Kleber-Diggs’s Worldly Things . Christian Wi...

Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Pl...