poetry mini interviews

How do you know when a poem is finished? When it is as good as I can make it at the time. When it is ready to step out the door and find a p...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I return often to Mary Oliver because ...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry and metaphor are how we encode the human experience. The things that...

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 am and always ...

What are you working on? 2019 is a two-book year for me: my poetry collection Following Sea came out in February and my second novel, Thi...

Lauren Carter is the author of four books: the poetry collections Lichen Bright and Following Sea and the novels Swarm and This Has No...