poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important?  Poetry presents new syntaxes with which to reimagine and reshape the world.

How do you know when a poem is finished? This is a tough call.  I think it’s finished when the poem stops keeping you up at night.  When i...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I’ll mention two recent and compelling reads: First, Aditya Bahl’s Name-Amen , a bea...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry can stop time or create various simultaneities.  I feel that one of ...

What are you working on? I actually am working on a novel, of all things. I signed up for NaNoWriMo with the notion of expanding one of my ...

How does a poem begin? How does one write? Over here it’s an emptiness that demands filling—even if that is a pipe dream. How can the empt...

How does a poem begin? With the light just-so, a change in external or internal weather, or feelings getting fucked with by the state or t...