poetry mini interviews

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Perhaps what poetry does best is draw language out of mystery and vice-vers...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I think Anne Sexton really changed the way I think about writing because she wrote E...

How does a poem begin? Most of mine begin with a fragment of language that snags on something in my brain and bothers me until I fasten it ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Translating my brainchildren into wordchildren proves quite difficult. How can I pos...

Mugabi Byenkya was born in Nigeria to Ugandan/Rwandan parents and is currently based between Kampala and Toronto. He spent his life acros...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Because of my blog I read a waft of poetry titles, every week, at least twenty. ...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? In my teens and tw...