poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? I am working on the last book of a trilogy on the lives and deaths of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. (It might end up as ...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry is formally concise, organic. If rhyme, rhythm, diction, word play co...

How important is music to your poetry? Music is very important to my poetry: rhythm inevitably drives it. Though I don't always work in...

How does a poem begin? A poem begins anywhere, with any prompt: an image; a location; the weather; a picture, photograph, phrase; a feeling...

Pamela Mordecai's recent books of poetry are Subversive Sonnets (TSAR, 2012) and de book of Mary: a performance poem (Mawenzi House...