poetry mini interviews

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? To name just two of many—reading Raul Zurita’s Song for His Disappeared Love (transla...

What are you working on? I usually find myself working on many projects at once. Soonish, I would like to turn my attention to putting toget...

How does a poem begin? When a poem wants to begin, it often arrives—as image, clustering words, phrases /marked/ notch of significance, unca...

What poetry books have you been reading lately? The Penguin Book of Indian Poets , edited by Jeet Thayil, just arrived in the mail—it is the...

Monica Mody is the author of Kala Pani (1913 Press), the forthcoming Bright Parallel (Copper Coin), and three chapbooks including Ordinar...