“I think I write to make something living out of what I feel or think—to take a two-dimensional statement and make it three-dimensional. That’s the only time I feel like I’ve communicated myself truly, and maybe I’m just chasing that—true communication.” I absolutely adore your Installation Series collection of poems, and we at Mud Season […]
Author: Jonah Meyer
Words Come to Me Furiously at Inconvenient Times: An Interview with Featured Poet Danèlle Lejeune, by Jonah Meyer, Poetry Editor “I hope to do book readings at observatories and in conversation with astronomers. I want to take it and read it from beginning to end at the rim of the Grand Canyon, under the wide-open […]
I often start writing in one form and find the poem demands another. Or that the poem is not at all about what I had initially imagined. Sometimes I have to wait until the poem tells me what it needs. We are excited to feature some of your creative work here in Mud Season […]
“An early teacher of mine suggested keeping a jar of words and lines that haven’t landed yet. The jar on my desk is overflowing.” Why do you write poetry? Poetry is a way for me to get worries out of my head—a way to confront what bothers me. Each time I finish a poem, […]
An Interview With Sherry Shahan by Jonah Meyer, Poetry Editor Having a molecule of an idea and watching it morph into a creature I no longer recognize. I’m an avid scribbler—everything from quirky lines heard in a song to snippets of an overheard conversation and odd images that randomly pop into my head. –Sherry Shahan […]
An Interview With Poet T.W. Sia by Jonah Meyer, Poetry Editor “To me, poems became the most concentrated reflections of our most prickly stories—the kind that we beg someone will be generous enough to listen to, but also the kind that makes us fear our own vulnerability.” –T.W. Sia Thank you, T.W., for taking […]
An Interview With Featured Poet Ali Gipson by Jonah Meyer, Poetry Editor With my poetry, I strive to examine myself in terms of whom I have been, currently am, and will be, and how these versions of myself are influenced and impacted by the natural world around me. Why do you write poetry? […]
An Interview with Bri Craig by Poetry Editor, Jonah Meyer “Still, I think if you can effectively lay out a moment in time, you can create something that is far more visceral and relatable than trying to stay away from the stories within your own experience.” What are you currently reading? I am currently reading […]
An Interview with Casey Harloe By Poetry Editor Jonah Meyer “Experiencing poetry of others makes me emboldened to let my guard down in writing even more, to be more trusting and personal.” –Casey Harloe Your poems we have published here—which I find outstanding, by the way—obviously appear to have been born from specific autobiographical […]
An Interview with Featured Poet Mandy Shunnarah By Poetry Editor Jonah Meyer The poems are everywhere. I just try to be observant so I’ll notice them when they come knocking and can write them down before they go off to somewhere else. –Mandy Shunnarah What was it like growing up in Alabama as you did, […]
An Interview with Featured Poet Gospel Chinedu By Poetry Editor Jonah Meyer “When a story is told, there’s this weightlessness and freedom from within. Poetry is the medium by which I unweight myself from a whole lot happening in and around me.” –Gospel Chinedu Why do you write poetry? Writing, beyond the scope of being just […]
An Interview with Marcy Rae Henry by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor Please tell us about your writing process. Do you have a specific or favored routine? A preferred time, setting, or place for your creation of poems? Who, what, when, or where tends to inspire you? Generally speaking, what does your revision […]
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An Interview with Kendra Mills by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor Poetry feels more natural to me than other kinds of writing, and writing feels more natural to me than other forms of expression […] Poetry seems intrinsically auto-fictional to me, the interpolation of the two forms can occur naturally and without explanation. […]
An Interview with Christian Hanz Lozada by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor “It’s like the dude on the dance floor whose arms are flailing to their own beat. Yeah, we’re looking, but not because they’re cool – it’s because we don’t want to get randomly smacked.” Christian Hanz Lozada You’ve described yourself as […]
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The Take: Sarah Marquez
The Hatchling by Sarah Marquez At my feet. Blocking the way in and out. Blind-head twisted back. Skin-wings outstretched in a mockery of flight. Dead. I step over. I wonder why this doorstep, why today, and who pushed it from the nest, or if it sensed death […]
Associate Poetry Editor Jonah Meyer Interviews Issue #57’s poet Jen Ashburn Find Jen’s work here. “As much as I love the oblique way poetry can enter your psyche, there’s real value to telling it straight.” — Jen Ashburn Your poem “It Was Not Midnight, It Was Not Raining” is, in my opinion, a mighty achievement, […]
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The Take: Zachary Kluckman
Author’s Statement: “Effigy” is partially inspired by the annual burning of Zozobra, a 50-foot effigy representing all that is negative. My mother passed recently, and the concept of this larger-than-life woman’s absence towers over me similarly. “Effigy” explores the enormity of her cremation, as well as the magnitude – and spectacle – of loss and […]