poetry mini interviews

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Recently: Derek Walcott – For the rich variation within his repetition.  In his lo...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? It has cooled into the long poem.  It has also shifted from registering experience...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Performance extends the creative timeline of a poem.  If its passages can be rearranged, if it ca...

How did you first engage with poetry? One early engagement: In about 1990, in a high school anthology, I stumbled upon the poets of the Ha...

Kaie Kellough is a poet, novelist, and sound performer. His next book of poems, Magnetic Equator , hovers between South America and Wester...