poetry mini interviews

I’ve been writing poetry since I was an undergraduate in the seventies, then did an MFA in my late thirties. So poetry has been a nearly lif...

How does a poem begin? Poems begin in my body. I’ve often compared it to the sensation just before a sneeze. Sometimes, a feeling comes over...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Water I Won’t Touch , Jennifer Martelli’s Queen of Queens , Dan...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Diane Seuss is the contemporary poet who has had the biggest, most recent impact on my...

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

Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a Queer poet living in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections...