poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? There are a lot of reasons, probably an infinite number of reasons, why poetry is important. I’m going to let a f...

What are you working on now? From 1999 to 2006, I wrote a book of poems called Compulsive Words , based on a collection of 150 words that ...

How important is music to your writing? Very important now, though not initially. In the 1980s, modern art had the most influence on my po...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? When I was in college in the late 1970...

Michael Ruby is a poet and journalist who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including At an In...