poetry mini interviews

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Books by my friends and fellow UBC grads, which is so wonderful! Ellie Sawatzky’s ch...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? To be honest, the first book of poetry I owned by a living person was Jewel’s A Nig...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I don’t know if I ever feel like my poems are really finished. There’s always something I’ll chan...

How did you first engage with poetry? My grandfather had a book called, The Top 500 Poems (ed. William Harmon). It’s a tome with a waterc...

Joelle Barron is a poet and writer, living as a settler on the Traditional Territory of the Anishinaabe of Treaty 3 (Kenora, ON). Their w...