Tina Mozelle Braziel : part one

Tina Mozelle Braziel author of Known by Salt (Anhinga Press) and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press) has been recently awarded the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park. She and her husband, novelist James Braziel, live and write in a glass cabin that they are building by hand on Hydrangea Ridge. Learn more at: https://tinamozellebraziel.com/

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?

Poetry gives direct access to someone else’s interior world, how their mind moves, how they grapple with being alive, and how they make meaning.