I was delighted to be interviewed via email by rob mclennan, a tireless Canadian poet and supporter of North American poetry. The link is: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with_01725800232.html 

Preview:

1a) How did your first book or chapbook change your life?

It established me in my own mind as a poet with a penchant for doing readings.

1b) How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel different?

The Singing Bullets of Soft Secession: & Other DaySongs is an extension/refinement of earlier work. It’s headed to more open territory and has more clarity and is more grounded, but continues to be informed by Michael McClure’s take on Charles Olson’s Projective Verse with a dash of Bernadette Mayer, Pierre Joris and Brenda Hillman. I could go on with the poets from whom I’ve stolen fire.

2 – How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction? READ MORE

Thanks rob.

Paul