poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? I hope I’m allowed to interpret “working on” broadly.  With the publisher now, and due out late this year or early ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The waiting. Waiting for another poem trigger to spring, waiting for the wraith of a p...

How important is music to your poetry? It’s central, in the sense that I generally use meter even when I don’t use rhyme. The one problem wi...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I’m going to interpret “changed” to include “allowed to begin again.” After busy decad...

Maryann Corbett earned a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota and expected to be teaching Beowulf and Chaucer and the hist...