poetry mini interviews

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?  I tend to return to Emily Dickinson...

How does a poem begin? Typically a poem begins as I hear it—in a fury, somewhere between clear thinking and the subconscious. Many take ye...

A Lambda Literary fellow, Michael Chang (they/them) was awarded the Kundiman Scholarship at the Miami Writers Institute in addition to fe...

What are you working on? I’m organizing a manuscript focused on the feeling of being a broken-down machine tethered to a fence that is, ho...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Every writer, author, poet has inspiration, one of my poems is entitled ‘there is no...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Good question! I feel like it's like the construction of a sentence. I have to have certain pa...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Status is an artificial construct of society legislating difference, legisl...