poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important?  The question’s a bit of a Rorschach test. Consider how Percy Bysshe Shelley might answer it: “poets are the unackn...

What are you working on? A novel or whatever comes out of attempting one. I do think that there’s something to Laura Miller’s warning about ...

How does a poem begin? It begins with a line typed on the page and the line has a little tail that hangs down and curls halfway under itself...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Earlier this year, I read about a sociologist who had managed to walk the length of ev...

Matthew Carey Salyer is an Associate Professor at West Point. He is the author of a chapbook, Lambkin , and a collection, Ravage & Snar...