poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? When a poem wants to begin, it often arrives—as image, clustering words, phrases /marked/ notch of significance, unca...

Aaron Kreuter is the author of the short story collection You and Me, Belonging and the poetry collection Arguments for Lawn Chairs . His wr...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? It’s visceral, and efficient. A poem can ignite the body like a livewire. 

Lauren Theresa (she/her) is a queer divergent writer, plant witch, and archetypal therapist living in a NYC-ish corner of NJ with her husba...

How do you know when a poem is finished? My poems are never finished. That’s the beauty and the pain of the practice. Ever-questioning, ever...

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 freewrite ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Metaphor. Several poets I know spill glorious metaphors from their pens, implying worl...