Author Interviews

Mary offers invaluable insight on how poetry collections are born, the beauty that can be found in mathematics, elements, and the stars, along with the coveted process of obtaining and working with an agent.

Warren talks about instrumental horror music playlists, convergence of video game tech and writing, PS5 patents, anti-procrastination browser extensions, the New Jersey to horror pipeline, and film/TV writing.

Brian illuminates his prose-poetry style, his latest chapbook release along with his upcoming second, gives advice for young poets, life as grandson to the famous Italian poet Germoglino Saggio, and explains how Benito Mussolini was his grandfather's first editor.

Mark illuminates the Philippines spoken word poetry scene, life as a poetry organizer, submitting to international markets, a deep-dive into his poem "Loose Limits," and performance vs. traditional poetry.

Lisa illustrates her love of haibuns, the difficulty in generating poetry sales, current size of the SpecPo market, and using news headlines for inspiration.

Aeryn offers insight into death metal's value as a writing tool, keeping up your daily word count, seven stages to reacting to literary rejection, and developing a process for querying novel agents.