poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? I love music and I think that music and poetry are intertwined and often borrow from and show up in o...

I’ve been writing poetry since I was an undergraduate in the seventies, then did an MFA in my late thirties. So poetry has been a nearly lif...

Why is poetry important? It isn’t, which is why it is. I’ll divide my answer to this in a pretty banal dichotomy: to those that consider lit...

How does a poem begin?  For me, a poem begins with a feeling and then I build upon that emotion and layer it with different poetic devices. ...

Sarah Ens is a writer and editor based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Her writing has appeared in Prairie Fire , Arc Poetry Magazine...

Matthew Kosinski is a poet, socialist, and occultist from Philadelphia. Alone in the White Marble City is available from New Delta Review ...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Not really. I’ve long considered poetry to be rich in its possibilities, a really ...