poetry mini interviews

Why is poetry important? I think a big part of poetry’s importance is that it is pretty unimportant. There aren’t many forms that take up sp...

Neil Flowers was born in Montreal. His published works include Taxicab Voice , Suite for the Animals , Some Kinds of Earthly Love , A Signa...

Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee currently lives in the United States. She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame...

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 always send ever...

What are you working on? This should be the easiest question to answer, but I keep changing my mind. I have a sizable stack of poetry notebo...

Kerry Ryan has published two books of poetry, The Sleeping Life (The Muses’ Company) and Vs. (Anvil). Her poems and essays have appeared ...

How does a poem begin? It begins with a word. A thought. Notes. A line or more. Hours, or many months, years later, a poem.