poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? This is one of the questions that always makes me feel like a bad poet, because I don’t have one set way of approac...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?  The desire to get it right, to make an impossibly perfect creation, gets in the way...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Well, there are my teachers—Phillis Levin, Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, Elizabet...

How does a poem begin? A poem usually starts with me when I get fixated on a sentence from an intrusive thought or something someone said ...

Julie Hogg is published widely in many literary journals and anthologies. Her debut pamphlets are Majuba Road Vane Women Press 2016 and Ele...

Why is poetry important?  All poetry is political.  Let’s get that out of the way first.  For me, poetry is an avenue for political protes...

Keith Leonard is the author of the poetry collection Ramshackle Ode (Mainer/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). His poems have appeared re...