Mermaids and Matryoshkas
Poets & Writers. Nov/Dec2015, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p27-22. 6p
The article discusses the author's conversation with five contemporary American poets about poetic sequence (PS) and the creative process. Matthea Harvey, winner of the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, talked about her struggle in choosing the words for the first lines of her poems. Matthew Zapruder explained how he uses internal logic systems to shape a PS. Tarfia Faizullah spoke about the guiding influence of poet Claudia Emerson in her thinking about sequences.