poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? Poetry is the diary we drip tears into when our crush doesn’t like us back. It’s the drywall we drive our fist thro...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes! One hundred percent! When I first started writing poetry - in 6th grade - eve...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Because I’m a perfectionist, because I’m ever improving, because I’m often a murderer of good thing...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers’ group that you work ideas and poems with? Simply put, I do ...

Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, often says while some write like a turtleneck sweater, she writes like a Hawaiian shirt. A f...