poetry mini interviews

How did you first engage with poetry? I remember the first poet who I ever saw performing their work.  I was in early elementary school, a...

Why is poetry important? Poetry is my whole life.  I didn’t do it for a long time.  Gave it up for many, many years.  I was living life an...

How important is music to your poetry?  Rhythm and rhyme are such a part of songs.  I write sonnets, mostly, which one derivation of that ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? If I don’t have an idea, it’s getting started.  Coming up with that idea out of what...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? The dense, terse nature of poetry – the details of it, full of pulp and fle...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I used to be on ...

Kristin Garth is a poet from Pensacola, a kneesock enthusiast and a sonnet stalker.  Her sonnets have stalked the pages of Occulum , Drun...