poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? In Victoria Chang’s epistolary book, Dear Silence , she writes that a poem begins after a silence. My poems begin in ...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I love to read Ada Limon’s Bright Dead...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Sometimes, I struggle with hiding behind figurative language—I want to jump out of the...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? In poetry, there is a sense of secrecy that some writers have a hard time app...

Taylor Gianfrancisco is an MFA student at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has work published in Dark Matter, Bone & Ink, and Half...