Joshua Bennett
“The only working antidote I have found for spells where I struggle to write—the weeks and months where every poem seems to me some small, opaque machine,
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Eric Shonkwiler
“Writing looks much the same for me as others: a cup of coffee, music, a bare desktop, and so on. Eventually the tank runs dry, the wheels come off, or I’m simply at the end of my workday. What’s left are inevitably the problems that stymied me while I wrote, or the ones I see on the horizon.
Jen Levitt
“One practice I’ve found useful for generating new ideas is entering into conversation with other poets, other poems. Though in general the more
Chris Campanioni
“I think the greatest thing we have at our disposal to write are our eyes and ears. Vanessa Hua has written in this series about writing against the clock
Jennifer S. Cheng
“I think of visual artifacts as prompts and as talismans. My book, House A, is a hybrid book—the third section consists of image-text poems
Daniel Borzutzky
“For Kristen Dykstra and Marcelo Morales Cintero.
Jade Chang
“Two things have transformed my productivity. The first: I made a writer friend! Specifically, one who actually wanted to meet up with me
Rusty Morrison
“’Yes, every man is Noah, but on closer inspection, he is Noah in a strange way, and his mission consists less in saving everything from the flood than,
Peter Orner
“I’ve always had a difficult time talking about writing. I’ve never really been able to say the phrase ‘my writing’ without feeling not only self-conscious
Melissa Yancy
“Intimidation works for me. Not when I’m stuck in the sense of needing to work out a specific problem in a story, but when the quality or ambition of my work