poetry — Essays & Interviews (FEED)

Flay Your Influences: Jessi MacEachern in Conversation with Sarah Burgoyne

There are some elements of life that feel unconnected to poetry (taxes, weeknight dinners, exercise routines), until my being a poet becomes the inevitable excuse for why I’m doing them badly or, at least, a little strangely. I’m becoming more comfortable identifying as a poet, but I’m not entirely sure that is a good thing, for myself or for poetry, ha! But it’s a fact that every notebook I own has poetry in its pages. The line, the enjambment, the concentrated image: that’s my natural syntax.

Dani SpinosaJune 9, 2026poetry, feminist poetry, canadian poetryComment

Poetry, Cyborgs and Black Exploitation Month: Interview with Whitney French

Whitney is the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine and the successful workshop series Writing While Black, an initiative to develop a community of Black writers.

Guest UserJuly 11, 2018whitney french, writing while black, from the root, 3 cities, O, poetry, fiction, #writingwhileblack, Black WritersComment

Interview with Soraya Peerbaye

"I love the way poetry has the capacity to hold questions that can’t be answered; to maintain their unanswerability as active, expressive, generative."

Guest UserJuly 11, 2018Soraya Peerbaye, Tell, poetry, south asian, nourbese philip, sachiko murakami, carolyn forcheComment

Interview with Deirdre Maultsaid

“In my own view, feminism is the claim to the truth that women have moral, political and sexual agency and should have commensurate influence in the world. Feminists are those that speak that truth and influence social mores, culture, and public life.”

Guest UserDecember 9, 2016deirdre maultsaid, poetry, feminismComment