You are the author of the chapbooks I Almost Didn’t Make Itto McDonald’s (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Night I Quit Flossing (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and This is Still Life (Brain Mill Press,2018). Talk about audience. When you create your chapbooks, what are your creative strategies to invite readers into your poems? Do you imagine your audience(s) in the writing and revision process? In what ways do you seek to build connections, cultivate dialogue, and invite responses from your…
