poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? The beginnings of poems often occur external to the author; a branch falls, a lover does something ordinary in a part...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? There is nothing difficult about writing poetry. Being an emergency room nurse is diff...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry is as close to an answer that we can find in this world. It is not an ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When I write the last line. That sounds facetious but what I mean is that the whole process of writ...

Michael Blouin has been a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, the bpNichol Award, the CBC Literary Award and his first novel won the...