poetry mini interviews

Every single poet I translated throughout the years has changed the way I think about writing. In a way, both writing and translating poetry...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? My current pet project is Mestizo Skies , an English translation of Ciels métissés, b...

How does a poem begin? As I speak and write in four languages, even now, it is as though I had multiple personalities, worlds colliding and...

How important is music to your poetry? In my view, what defines a poem comes from a particularly rich and intense use of language’s threefo...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? When you love poetry, you quickly realize that a poem, by nature, demands to...

Madeleine Stratford is a poet, a literary translator and a professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais. Her poems have appeared in a n...