poetry mini interviews

Molly Cross-Blanchard is a Metis  writer from the prairies currently living as a guest on unceded Musqueam territory. She has an English ...

How important is music to your poetry? Music is central to my poetic process. My first book, I thought elvis was italian was inspired by ...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Off the top of my head, and in alphabetical order because I cannot possibly ra...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? The dense, terse nature of poetry – the details of it, full of pulp and fle...

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

How did you first engage with poetry? My grandfather had a book called, The Top 500 Poems (ed. William Harmon). It’s a tome with a waterc...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Oh, yes! I didn’t know how important the sounds of words were – the cadences and...