poetry mini interviews

How did you first engage with poetry? That would be when I was a kid in school who took books out of the Bookmobile and school library oft...

I think the questions in this series are really interesting, and they really force a person to think about how they approach poetry and/or w...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The same things that I find rewarding about poetry are what I find most difficult, w...

What are you working on? Right now I have two projects going, in very different stages. The first called Music Before We Were Bodies, and ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Revision. Looking back at my own work makes me feel so vulnerable, especially since ...

Russian-American poet Stella Hayes is the author of poetry collection One Strange Country (What Books Press, forthcoming in 2020). She g...

How important is music to your poetry? Not as much as I would wish it to be. I’m more of a visual person. Growing up, no one in my family ...