poetry mini interviews

How has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?  In my twenties I was thrilled to discover Bill Knott, who sometimes wrote i...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The most difficult part about writing poetry, for me, is when I’m unable to linguist...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? My poetry proces...

Tyler Pufpaff : Poetry Editor at Variant Literature. English & Business student at UNCG. Lover of black coffee and the Godfather movie...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I’ve been blessed to have met and worked with a good number of highly accomplished p...

How do you know when a poem is finished? For me, poems finish somewhere in the middle ground somewhere between my own preferences and the ...

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden is the author of two collections of poetry, Learning Russian (Mansfield Press) and Clinic Day (Brick Books). He...