poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? When I read poetry I’m always looking for that simultaneous flash of recognition and wonder—something so familiar b...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I often find that I call a poem finished, but there’s one line or one image that doesn’t quite work...

How does a poem begin? I used some self-imposed prompts or constraints for a number of the poems in my new collection. A lot of the poems be...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The vulnerability. The subject matter of much of my work is personal and raw, and so i...

Jennifer Bowering Delisle (she/her) is the author of Deriving , a poetry collection, and The Bosun Chair , a lyric family memoir. She is a ...