poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? I came to poetry in part through years of music-mixing for my local public radio station. My ears had...

How does a poem begin? It begins because I need to hold something dear or turn over something troubling. It begins with an image, an opening...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? A poem is an intimacy, a new form of touch, the body of language made fresh a...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? I came to poetry from outside the genre, knowing (truly) nothing about it. I wrote...

Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020), which Publishers Weekly calls a “stirring, origina...