poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? My poems almost always begin by accident…it’s hard, unless I’m trying to write into a specific gap in a manuscript, f...

Why is poetry important? It feels really important in all writing to have language that engages with, resists, challenges, troubles, lives i...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Everything! Kidding—but I think it’s difficult to let each poem navigate its way betwe...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? When I need renewal, I go back to my f...

Kelly Weber is the author of the debut poetry collection We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, 2022) and the chapbook ...