poetry mini interviews

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? With my haiku, alm...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? I have always been an image driven poet, so I had little capacity and interest in ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When it’s been read and there’s been some feedback given on it by an editor, or a writing friend.  ...

How did you first engage with poetry? I had a dream when I was in high school and when I woke up, I wrote it down as a poem. That was my fir...

Sally Ito has published three books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel , A Season of Mercy , and Alert to Glory .  She has also co-transla...