poetry mini interviews

How did you first engage with poetry? I believe I first started to seriously consider poetry through song lyrics. I loved the booklets that ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When it's time to do something else. Jack Spicer: "Poetry ends like a rope."

How did you first engage with poetry? I first engaged with poetry because I had a broken heart and I suppose they functioned as a diary of...

How does a poem begin? My poems usually begin with a half line prompt drifting through my head that I discard later once I’m in the thick o...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When the book is out. I didn't stop tinkering with my first book until it was already out.

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Fighting the narrative impulse. For poems dealing with disability: allowing for emot...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Once I find the line of a poem, the rest of it all kind of slides into place. But un...