Author: Rob Taylor

“Every poem is an exercise in saying something true”Go to full post …read more

The following interview is part four of a nine-part series of conversations with BC poets about their new poetry collections. New interviews will be posted everyone Tuesday and Thursday throughout April for National Poetry Month 2020. All interviews were conducted by Go to full post …read more

“A musician friend told me her jazz trio leader said to them, ‘Take it to the left.’ That’s kind of what I learned from the ghazal and what I’d like to sneak into my poems.”Go to full post …read more

“Sometimes I think poetry can be described as a small machine for creating failure. Can a poet ever get it right?”Go to full post …read more

“I realized a long time ago that I live in this in-between place and what I do with my art has to reflect that.” Go to full post …read more

Like some of the fairy tale tellers before me, I’m looking to see what is hidden in the stories that I can bring out and offer in our present moment.Go to full post …read more

“Bounce House began contemplating the connection between my kid standing on a basketball, not believing she was going to fall off it, and Flat Earthers.”Go to full post …read more

“I have always been drawn to prose poems that channel a stream-of-consciousness. I love how it feels like you’re peeking into the mind of the poet or writer.”Go to full post …read more

“To me there are three essential factors of modern writing: one is ordinary language, one is free-form, and one is precise states of emotion”Go to full post …read more

Some End/West Broadway is itself a kind of poetry commune: two books, one by George and the other by George, brought together back-to-back as one creature.Go to full post …read more

“I don’t want to put guilt on readers. I do, however, want them to step into my world for a moment and see things from my perspective.”Go to full post …read more

“The source of the deepest dreams and the most intense wanderlust is, for me the place beneath my feet.”Go to full post …read more