poetry mini interviews

Jamie Evan Kitts (she/her/hers) is a Co-Managing Editor of Qwerty Magazine , a member of the Egg Poets Society, a settler on the unceded an...

Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fifth volume of poetry, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?  Early on, confessional and post-confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton,...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? No other form distills language to its musical and lexical essence like poetr...

How important is music to your poetry?  Poets once were bards - there must always be music in poetry. To me, it is requisite that a poem rea...

What are you working on? I just published my second book, Flyway (Turnstone Press), which is a long poem that’s occupied me for the past fo...

How does a poem begin? Sometimes with a ghost, sometimes with a joke. Although before that, before the immediate inciting incident, there is...