Matt Vekakis : part one

Matt Vekakis is an MFA student in poetry at the University of Florida. Their recent work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Appalachian Review, Welter, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Matt serves as EIC of The Lunch Break Zine—the literary companion of Out to Lunch Records.

How do you know when a poem is finished?

If I am still thinking about a poem after it is written on the page—if I am still building images, teasing connections, arranging metaphor, changing words, coloring nuance—I know the poem is not done.