poetry mini interviews

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? By pushing at the limits and finding a language worthy of yearning, poetry ca...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? As a kind of tremo...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? My understanding of what it can do, as opposed to other forms of verbal attack, ce...

How do you know when a poem is finished?   The poem should let you know. One doesn’t “abandon” a poem, it abandons the poet from the outset....

Michael Lee Rattigan (Caterham, UK) is a poet and translator who has lived and taught in Mexico and Spain. He translated the first complete...