Category: Interviews

“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

This past December, the brick-and-mortar location of Iron Dog Books opened for business. We caught up with Hilary to visit the space and hear about this new chapter.Go to full post …read more

Through interviews and archival access, Robert D. Watt gathers the story of each piece, often in Point’s own words, to illustrate the vital role she has played in revealing and re-establishing the “Salish footprint” in the Pacific Northwest. Go to full post …read more

“Maybe the despair is countered with humour, or joy. I think that for me is closer to the experience of things.”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

“I believe the sciences and the arts must work together, speak to each other. I hope my poems are literal representation of that belief.”Go to full post …read more

“Pretending everything is fine is a necessary but often detrimental part of what it means to be human.”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