Jessica Morey-Collins : part seven
What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Sometimes everything feels like a poem, and sometimes nothing does. I am insecure in ...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part six
What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Line endings and visual caesuras allow poems to use white space and shape to...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part five
How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I try to stay con...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part four
Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes. Initially, poetry was a means of self-expression. Over the past decade or so...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part three
How do you know when a poem is finished? Once a year or so I feel a “click” when ideas and images sync up and whirr... but otherwise I’m no...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part two
How did you first engage with poetry? I have a mood disorder, so a lot of my adolescent work was trying to make sense of overwhelming emoti...
Jessica Morey-Collins : part one
Jessica Morey-Collins received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she won an Academy of American Poets award, and worked as ...
