poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? For about seven years now I’ve been working on a collection of poems, anecdotes, original folklore, mythology, se...

How does your work first enter the world? In my head. As visual fragments that are unconsciously stored away. Sometimes lines enter but I th...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I’m not sure that any poets have changed the way that I think of writing. I’ve never t...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? This morning I was talking with one of the cooks at my child’s daycare, Wanda. We have...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? When I first began writing poems, I had maybe read one or two poems prior to wri...

Metta Sáma is author of Swing at your own risk (forthcoming Kelsey St. Press), the year we turned dragon (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs),...