poetry mini interviews

What do you feel that poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I turn to poetry to be led by a different logic than the kind that pro...

Tina Mozelle Braziel author of Known by Salt (Anhinga Press) and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press) has been recently awarded the Philip...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Mostly when enough time has passed that I can get into it objectively. I think finished-ness idea...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? There are three writers who have had ...

How important is music to your poetry? Music drives and influences almost all of my work. In the crown of sonnets I’ve been writing, I’m ta...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When I was working on my forthcoming book, Wyoming , “finished” largely depended on if the new wor...

2. What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Part of my interest in relating to poetry pertains to my own problems as...