poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? Music in important to my (writing of) poetry only in so far as I cannot listen to music and write po...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? In the last two months I’ve been utterly transfixed by Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equat...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I don’t.

Why is poetry important?  Poetry refuses givens, eschews the expected, and allows for different worlds and ways of being to be imagined. Po...

How did you first engage with poetry? When I was very young, maybe between the ages of 3 and 5, my father read me Rhyme of the Ancient Mari...

Dr. Sarah de Leeuw , a Professor with the University of Northern British Columbia’s Northern Medical Program, the Faculty of Medicine at t...