poetry mini interviews

How do you know when a poem is finished? A poem has to rest for a while after it has been written. I go through a few drafts, sometimes man...

How does a poem begin? In myriad ways. Of late, a poem begins out of a frustration with the confines of convention. I often feel tra...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Often when the title comes to me.

Kyle Flemmer [photo credit: Dean McClelland] is an author, editor, and publisher from Calgary. He founded The Blasted Tree Publishing C...

How does a poem begin? For me, poems (and writing in general) begins in reading. I find the poems of mine that I like the most are i...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? Mina Loy. Mina Loy. Mina Loy. ...

rob mclennan [photo credit: Stephen Brockwell] lives in Ottawa, where he runs a reading series three blocks away from where he was bo...