poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? In the best circumstances, the first line that springs up like a bone I build the rest of the project on, whether tha...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? I think the longer I do it and the more I make myself write even when I don't thin...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I think its spareness allows an entire world to be contained in a line---some...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? I think the way I compose poems has changed from when I first began, and there are...

How did you first engage with poetry? If you go way, way back, I was fascinated with Mother Goose, which I guess is is a type of poetry.  Be...

A writer and book artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of many artist books, chapbooks, and zines, as well as several prose/poetry/hybrid col...