Interview with Poet Laura Lovic-Lindsay
How does the act of writing poetry change your perception of the world around you?
I want to celebrate everything when I'm writing. The world seems covered with magic and beauty at those times and all I need to do is hunt the right words that make the magic visible to others.
Name a poet who has inspired you and tell us why.
The first poets I read were obscure, the kind of work you had to sit and puzzle out before you could take their journey with them. I'm not a fan of that, myself. Lucille Clifton was the first poet I adored. No puzzles there, in her work. The beauty was at the front, accessible to all.
What advice would you give other aspiring poets on how to improve their skills?
I feel like the best advice I ever got was to sit with an image, twisting it in your mind. "What is a new, fresh take on this image?" you're asking. Throw out the first five/ten answers to that question. They've probably been done before. Start mining the deeper connections you've got with the image. That's when magic begins.
Click the link below to view Laura Lovic-Lindsay's imaginative retelling of Hansel and Gretel in Issue 2:
Candyhouse to Gretl
I want to celebrate everything when I'm writing. The world seems covered with magic and beauty at those times and all I need to do is hunt the right words that make the magic visible to others.
Name a poet who has inspired you and tell us why.
The first poets I read were obscure, the kind of work you had to sit and puzzle out before you could take their journey with them. I'm not a fan of that, myself. Lucille Clifton was the first poet I adored. No puzzles there, in her work. The beauty was at the front, accessible to all.
What advice would you give other aspiring poets on how to improve their skills?
I feel like the best advice I ever got was to sit with an image, twisting it in your mind. "What is a new, fresh take on this image?" you're asking. Throw out the first five/ten answers to that question. They've probably been done before. Start mining the deeper connections you've got with the image. That's when magic begins.
Click the link below to view Laura Lovic-Lindsay's imaginative retelling of Hansel and Gretel in Issue 2:
Candyhouse to Gretl