poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important?  I’ve never considered myself a political writer, but faced with the deep distress caused by the current political...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?  In Forces of Imagination , Barbara Guest opened my eyes to the possibilities of ana...

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

How does a poem begin? I don’t write poems so much as extended series, which generally develop into a full collection. I usually start by s...

Valerie Witte is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books, 2015) and the chapbooks The history of mining (g.e. collect...