Let’s begin with your (poetic) origin story. Start with family. I am fortunate enough to come from a family of readers, writers, storytellers. One of those families with bookshelves in every room. My parents read and read to my…
Hyacinth Girl Press
Darling Hands, Darling Tongue (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) is a retelling that explores aspects of Peter Pan by giving voice to Wendy, Tiger Lily, and Tinker Bell. Why retell women’s stories? What is your process when writing poems based on…
How did your collaborative chapbook begin? Juliet Cook – My memory issues might be warped, but my recollection remembers me posting tortured Saint photos on my facebook page and then Robert Cole suddenly emailing me, asking if I might…
In the July/August 2013 issue of Poets & Writers Pamela Paul, the new editor of the New York Book Review explains that “A really good book review answers a fundamental question: Is this a book I want to read?”…
How do you define “chapbook”? And what is your sense of the history of the chapbook, its evolution, its current place in the poetry community, and its future iterations? I think of chapbooks as being considerably shorter than full-length…
The Chapbook Interview: Sarah J. Sloat on language-awareness, expat poetry, and homesickness
What is a chapbook? It’s best if a chapbook takes place on paper, and it should be petite and spineless. When I think about what’s in it – whether poetry, flash fiction or non-fiction – I imagine a chocolate…
How do you define “chapbook”? I tend to consider a chapbook a short collection of poetry or prose by one author that follows, more than likely, one theme or idea or emotion. I’m relatively new to the chapbook scene,…