poetry mini interviews

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular poem by an author? My first crushes occurred w...

What are you working on? I’m working on a novella-in-flash. I committed to Jami Attenburg’s 1,000 Words of Summer, and I just finished the f...

How does a poem begin? I fall hardest for poems that have an intriguing first line, then I’m compelled to follow wherever it leads me. I was...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I don’t know if a poem is ever finished because when I step back and squint a little, looking at a ...

Shareen K. Murayama is a Japanese American, Okinawan American poet and educator. Her first chapbooks, HEY GIRL, ARE YOU IN THE EXPERIMENTAL ...