poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? I don’t usually listen to music when I write, but music must be integral to my writing process becau...

How does a poem begin? No single way. Sometimes a poem’s a thing that rattles, a nagging, maybe for months, that suddenly shakes loose. So...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Deeply. I started writing poetry in elementary school, delving in a bit more in m...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers’ group that you work ideas and poems with? Simply put, I do ...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Honestly two come immediately to mind. In the order I discovered them I would say wit...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The most difficult thing for me when writing poetry is to not limit myself to my own...

How does a poem begin? As I speak and write in four languages, even now, it is as though I had multiple personalities, worlds colliding and...