poetry mini interviews

How did you first engage with poetry?  As a child, reading Mother Goose nursery rhymes. I am fortunate enough that I do not remember a time...

How did you first engage with poetry? I was 15 years old and in love with the world of classic literature. I discovered an anthology of po...

Lauren Carter is the author of four books: the poetry collections Lichen Bright and Following Sea and the novels Swarm and This Has No...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? For showing a path to the mystical in writing: Okinba Launko, Gabriel Garcia Marquez,...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I always go back to Meditations in A...

How does a poem begin? Poetry almost always begins with my feet. I walk. A few words walk with me until they begin to string out into somet...

james stotts is a poet and russian translator, living in boston with his son.  his first two books, since and elgin pelicans , were publi...