The CAUSA SUI Interview Palimpsest and found poems dot your latest collection—what and who has inspired you to employ these forms throughout Causa Sui? Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (2023) was the inspiration for “‘We the People’: Found Poems from Project 2025.” I started that sequence as an erasure, but erasing 900+ pages of text quickly became overwhelming, […]
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Michael Gushue and Kim Roberts
At the End of the World Interview Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech, 2025) is a collection of poems from Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue. The collection was inspired by weekly movie nights that the two authors had where they would watch sci-fi films together. Q&A’s structure is a call-and-response, where Robert’s poems pose […]
Varun Gauri, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus
What inspired you to start writing creatively, and specifically, to write For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus? My parents tried to sell me on a Hindu arranged marriage like their own. I resisted outwardly (my first wife was Jewish) but somehow relented in spirit, essentially sleepwalking, not really believing that marriage was mine to […]
Chanlee Luu, author of The Machine Autocorrects Code To I
From where did you draw inspiration for the title of your collection, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I? The title comes from my Taylor Swift Golden Shovel about the process of healing, which we tend to think of as an individual process, but is actually communal. The title is open to multiple interpretations, but for […]
Megan Doney, author of Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir
What was the most challenging moment in your process of writing this memoir? I can’t pinpoint a specific moment in the writing process itself; all of the writing was intellectually and emotionally challenging. However, I was very low after two failed connections with agents, being out on submission for more than a year, and multiple […]
Grace Cavalieri
If you could pick one book that has changed your life as a poet, what would it be and why? If you could pick one book that has changed your life as a poet, what would it be and why? How do you view it? Is it a source of comfort, inspiration, or envy? The […]
Dr. Tonee Mae Moll on her new edition of You Cannot Save Here
Can you tell me about the significance of You Cannot Save Here in your writing career and the importance of its newly reissued edition? It’s exciting because it’s my first full collection of poems. So, my first full book was a memoir, but You Cannot Save Here was the book that helped establish, hey, I’m […]