poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? This is one of the questions that always makes me feel like a bad poet, because I don’t have one set way of approac...

How important is music to your poetry? Music—pacing of syntax, patterning of sound, and metrical prosody—is at the service of the speakers...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Vievee Francis is always my first answer to this question. A brilliant poet, and als...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry is the queerest of all the artistic letters—at least more so than fi...

A Cave Canem alum, Tommye Blount is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020) and What Are We Not For (Bull Cit...