The Long and Rolling Line
The author of Ocean of Clouds (Knopf, 2025) considers the lineage of his own loping lines and encourages poets to try them.
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Plotting Form Ahead of Time
The author of Ocean of Clouds (Knopf, 2025) considers the benefits of planning elements of a poem before its composition.
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Writing Sonnets on the Question of Motherhood
The author of no swaddle (University of Iowa Press, 2025) considers the value of both engaging with and refuting a traditional form.
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Ten Questions for Lisa Fishman
“The magnitude of space around me must have opened a kind of interior spaciousness where the writing came from.” —Lisa Fishman, author of One Big Time
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Ten Questions for Kimiko Hahn
“You can go with intention, or you can explore where the poem leads you. Where your unconscious leads you.” —Kimiko Hahn, author of The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems
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Ten Questions for torrin a. greathouse
“I’d love to be the kind of writer who sits down at my desk at a specific and predictable time...and write, but I’ve never been that writer. —torrin a greathouse, author of DEED.
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Copy and Paste: On Poetic Theft
The author of Yaguareté White considers the ethics of found poetry.
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What Herbie Hancock Taught Me About Formal Poetry
The author of Midwhistle contemplates the common ground between jazz music and poetry.
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Approaches to Titling Your Poem
The author of Midwhistle considers how a poem’s title can frame, deepen, or complicate the reader’s experience of it.
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Ten Questions for Justin Torres
“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
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