I’m thrilled about the recent publication of my new book, Bloodstream!   It wasn’t that long ago that Christal and I talked specifically about my poem “Relative Risk,” from my debut full-length poetry collection, The Grief Committee Minutes, which came out in late 2024.  It was 17 months between the…

#48 Backstory of the Poem “Laika” from the poetry collection Obscura by Frank Paino published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center on December 5, 2020 and Gettysburg Review 29:3 (Winter, 2017) https://www.csupoetrycenter.com/ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/ Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was…

Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form?   Poetry prompts tend to be hit and miss with me. Mostly miss. The prompt for this poem was to write from a photograph. Much of…

https://finishinglinepress.com/product/innermost-sea-by-nancy-dafoe/ Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form?   I had not written a poem in a while and felt stopped. After reading the poems, I thought about all the people in the…

#447 Backstory of the Poem “Lamp of Color” by Patricia Gomes and published in the anthology HIGH TIDE STILL HEART. HTSH edited by Tirza Valeria Garcia Olivares and Lucy Ross.  The final edit is by Blue Crystal Literary Magazine editor Richard Phillipos. It is published by Blue Crystal Literary Magazine…

https://pierianspringspress.com/timothy-gager/ https://www.facebook.com/PierianSpringsPress What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you finished the piece of fiction? I started on the book in 2023 (BELOW LEFT), and first draft was finished in 3 months. The final version of the manuscript was completed in 2025…

  https://finishinglinepress.com/product/tracks-in-snow-by-thaddeus-rutkowski/ This poem originally appeared in Rigorous magazine https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v6i2/thaddeus-rutkowski.html Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? I got the idea when I asked my mother to write her maiden name, Wang.…

  https://llc.uncg.edu/international-poetry-review/ ABOVE LEFT: Susana H. Case in Noto. Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? The architecture of Noto and its terrible history got me thinking about past and present, how…