“On Passing (or Notes Towards a Manifesto)” was the last poem I finalized for my collection Trouble Sleeping (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2015). It was difficult because it’s probably one of the most vulnerable poems I had written until that one. I had to address what it felt like to feel like an outsider […]
Sarah Giragosian on the genesis if her poem “Death Spiral.”
Angela Gabrielle Fabunan talks about the genesis of her poem “Fair Game.”
Mihaela Moscaliuc talks about the genesis of her poem “Immigrant Model.”
Emily Vizzo talks about the genesis of her poem “Theodore Roosevelt never returned to Panama; he never saw the Panama Canal.”
Erica Dawson talks about the genesis of her poem “Condition.”
francine j. harris talks about the genesis of her poem, “escape (after Michael Jackson and for Blair).”
Layli Long Soldier talks about how she came to write her poem, “38.”