poetry mini interviews

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I’ve been engaging with poetic audiobooks. There is something really special about lis...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Billy-Ray Belcourt for sure. When I read NDN Coping Mechanisms , I thought holy crap, ...

How important is music to your poetry? I love music and I think that music and poetry are intertwined and often borrow from and show up in o...

How does a poem begin? For me, usually with an observation. Either something that I experience with one of my senses, or an idea or concept ...

Samantha Jones (she/her) is a scientist, poet, and editor based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) on Treaty 7 territory. She is a magazine and jou...