poetry mini interviews

What are you working on? I am currently working on fourth and fifth poetry manuscripts simply by putting poems into two sliding and approxim...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I can reread it and not feel as Lowell said “paralyzed by fact”…the poem doesn’t feel lurid, garish...

How important is music to your work: You mean rhythm and sound combined?  Without music, it is not poetry.  It just isn’t.  It is something ...

How does a poem begin:   As Madame Moore said, “Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form.”  I know when something is ...

Regan Good attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches writing at the Pratt School of Architecture and Bar...