The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote
“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein
“I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #207: Andrew Weatherhead
“I want my art to be symbiotic with my life, not separate from it.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall
“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #204: Paulina Flores
“Working with words is a quest, not blind, but in the darkness.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck
“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”
