poetry mini interviews

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? There are several poets I turn to for ...

How does a poem begin? Most of what I write is written in that weird state between sleep and waking. This is where my raw material comes fro...

Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire , for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award fro...

How did you first engage with poetry? My father was a high school English teacher and I grew up in a house full of books. I read voraciously...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? My beside currently has books by Selma Hill, Claudia Rankin, William Stafford. My favo...

Jessi MacEachern lives in Montréal, QC. Her writing on the contemporary feminist poetics of Lisa Robertson, Erín Moure, and Rachel Zolf has...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? I start first as a reader and in fact didn’t start a regular writing practice until I ...