In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Garrigan
In your poem, “The River, A Ghost,” I love that you give us several fourth-wall breaks that jar us out of the river imagery. When did the inspiration for equating a “river in drought” to struggles with fertility emerge in your writing process? I didn’t start out...
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Unapologetic Gospel of the Soul, By Beau Fike
Rosali Borka is a self-defined cripple witch poet and dear friend of mine who is currently debuting as an Instagram poet. She is an incubator of intensity and has a profound command over each turn of phrase. Her first pieces in this iteration...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Owen McLeod
Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “Sunrise Village.” How did it come to be? It came into being the way most of my poems do: over time, various images lodge themselves in my mind and coalesce into something like a seed. When I feel it sprouting, I try to coax it...
Writing Haiku With Your Girlfriend, By Jess C. Kuhn
One way to swirl up imaginative juices with your partner, in times of potential lackluster fluttering or in a dry spell on romantic river beds, is to share in the experience of mutual poetic expression. An easy introduction to this exercise is...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors- Maryann Corbett
In The Field is a blog series devoted to highlighting the writing life and artistic process of our contributors. This week we continue with our series now featuring contributors from our most recent issue, Vo. 21 "Bodies Worth Defending". 1. Tell us about your...
Magazine Poetry: Words + Glue = Poem, By Erin Geyen
No, you’re not technically writing, but creating “magazine poetry” is a good exercise to get you out of your own head. Experiencing writer’s block? Spread out, use new tools and muscles, find words that aren’t your own and claim them. Here’s a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jonathan Greenhause
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? “You’re the deciduous forest” was written a few years ago while I was writing a lot of poems that were basically litanies of contradictory statements. In truth, I tend to write quite a few of these. This...
Four Ways To Live Your Writing Life In The Twin Cities, By Sonia Johnson
In my first semester at Hamline’s MFA Program, the poet Gretchen Marquette came to visit one of our classes. During a Q&A with our class, she was asked about her writing practice. The student asked whether she wrote everyday, and if she did,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Lesley Wheeler
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I’m working on a collection that’s in part about turning fifty, and it contains a lot of poems that riff on that number in one way or another—a poem called “L” in fifty-character lines, for example. I...