poetry mini interviews

I don’t know what I’m doing, but I do know that ‘coda’ is a musical term. I have questions of my own. What comes after graduation? If I miss...

How important is music to your poetry? Call me sophomoric, or call me Manahil Bandukwala’s evil twin. Pop music helps me figure out popular...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I don’t. I outsource that decision-making to friends (er, ‘peers’). When they run out of feedback t...

What are you working on? Singles. Individual poems, although I’m following a life line: academia, expattery, (un[der])employment… at this st...

How did you first engage with poetry? My extrinsic motivation is a decade-old vestige of belonging to In/Words’ writers circle and reading s...

Jenna Jarvis has appeared in These Days ( Horsebroke Press ) and deathcap ( Coven Editions ). She has published three chapbooks: year of p...