poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? I think that anything that can save your life is important. For some people, that’s poetry. For some people it’s ...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? The most recent poetry book I read was Erika Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me . It is br...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I think Anne Sexton really changed the way I think about writing because she wrote E...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? I think I’m much more open-minded than I used to be. Working as a Poetry Editor ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I think it’s an instinctive feeling. You just feel when a poem is finished; you don’t necessaril...

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems ...