poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? Music helps me figure out rhythms in poetry. Over the past month, I’ve been practicing reading poem...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I love reading chapbooks and books by people in my community, or people whom I’ve pe...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? The In/Words wr...

How did you first engage with poetry? I used to consider myself primarily a prose writer, and wrote poems on the side. When I moved to Ott...

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and artist currently living in Ottawa. Her work has appeared in In/Words , Bywords , re:asian and ottawat...