poetry mini interviews

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? As Roque Dalton said, “poetry, like bread, is for everyone.” Poetry is an art...

Why is poetry important? I’ve been lucky to hear poet Martín Espada read in person twice. The first time I was in Freeport and he said to a ...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ imparted a love of being alive, sense of ecstatic pray...

How important is music to your poetry? Music is a source of sustenance to me in how it’s energizing, comforting, and euphoric. I like to kee...

Lisa Panepinto is the author of where i come from the fish have souls (Spuyten Duyvil) and on this borrowed bike (Three Rooms Press). Sh...