Helen Wickes Q&A on the form of Narrativity
Helen Wickes, author of In Search of Landscape, talks about determining the form of her poem Narrativity.
How do you determine what form a poem will take? For instance, do you sit down to write a cento? Do you sit down to write long lines, or does the poem itself dictate that to you?
Helen Wickes Q&A on the structure of Cheerful Defense of the Realm
Helen Wickes, author of In Search of Landscape, talks about the formal structure of her poem Cheerful Defense of the Realm.
Patrick Phillips Q&A on form
Patrick Phillips, author of the collection Chattahoochee, talks about how he employs form in his poetry.
Kevin Goodan Q&A on form
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), talks about how he determines the form a poem will take.
April Ossmann Q&A on form
April Ossmann talks about how she determines the form her poems will take.
A.J. Collins Q&A on determining what form a poem will take
A. J. Collins, who teaches in the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Maine, Farmington, talks about how he determines what form a poem will take.
Linda Susan Jackson Q&A talks about the genesis and form of her poem, September 15, 1963
Linda Susan Jackson, author of the chapbooks, Vitelline Blues and A History of Beauty, talks about the genesis and form of her poem, September 15, 1963.
Matthew Shenoda Q&A on form
Matthew Shenoda talks about form in his poems.