poetry mini interviews

Geoffrey D. Morrison is a fiction writer, poet, and critic. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Blood-Brain Barrier (Frog Hollow Press...

How important is music to your poetry? For me, music is poetry, and vice versa (which is funny, as I have zero actual musical ability). I’m...

Lillian Nećakov is the author of six books of poetry, numerous chapbooks, broadsides and leaflets. Her new book il virus was published in...

How does a poem begin? Please let me know. If I knew this secret it would be much easier to start. I am much more comfortable with the landi...

Raegen Pietrucha writes, edits, and consults creatively and professionally. Her chapbook, An Animal I Can't Name , won the 2015 Two of C...

How do you know when a poem is finished? There’s the first kind of finished, the moment in which I can’t bear to look at it anymore. On a sm...

Why is poetry important? It feels really important in all writing to have language that engages with, resists, challenges, troubles, lives i...