poetry mini interviews

Coda: At a reading once, a reader asked me the following question: “We’re always told how poetry will help our fiction writing, but how do y...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? When I first bega...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? No one is more important to me than Sylvia Plath. Her poetry broke everything I thoug...

What poetry books have you been reading lately? Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds , Dan Brady’s Strange Children , Maggie Smith’s Go...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? There’s not much about poetry that isn’t difficult, which honestly is part of what d...

Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she directs the graduate program in English at Weber State University. Her work has appeared i...