poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? My poems used to be far more flowery and abstract and their music was louder. Lately, I go for more ...

How important is music to your poetry? i learned to speak french phonetically, so i am always noticing inflection, sonic overlap, so-calle...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I have to admit, few poets have. There are many novelists: Balzac, Faulkner, Sebald,...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? This is a great question. I feel like I understood more about poetry fifteen year...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The absolutely most banal thing – finding time to work on my writing. Escaping the r...

How does a poem begin? a turn of phrase, wonky spelling, or clever pronunciation gets stuck in my head and won’t let me forget about it. I ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The vulnerability it entails. A lot of myself goes into my prose, but it’s all mixed ...