poetry mini interviews

Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, curator, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author most recently of...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I’m part of an a...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?  Poetry can slow down time. It’s obvious that we are obsessed with speed. W...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I think the unique thing about poetry is that it is malleable yet unwaverin...

How do you know when a poem is finished? When I think it’s finished, I read the poem aloud. I append to the last line a word like, “Fucker...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Not that long ago I picked up my copy of Ginsberg’s Collected Poems 1947-1980 and r...

What poets have changed the way you think about writing? Gwendolyn Brooks is a major influence. I was fascinated by how, sometimes with ju...