poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? For me a poem begins in a strange juxtaposition, a kind of tension that is revealed by a seemingly literal or real o...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I return to Rimbaud’s Une saison en e...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I’ve been reading a lot of ‘innovative’ Irish poetry/poetry coming from Ireland. I’ve...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? As a teenager, my reading of Arthur Rimbaud and Walt Whitman shaped my sense of what ...

Kimberly Campanello’s poetry books and pamphlets include Consent , Imagines, Strange Country (on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings), and ...