Traci Brimhall

The fabulous poet Matthew Guenette tagged me in a self-interview series called The Next Big Thing, so I answered some questions about my forthcoming chapbook with Brynn Saito.

I wrote a post about Brandon Courtney's beautiful poem “Corpse Flower, Brooklyn Botanic Garden” in issue 10.2 of 32 Poems. It was a killer poem and a pleasure to write about.

The journal Memorious has a blog series called Big Loves in which writers discuss a poet they love who has influenced their work. I discuss my latest crush on Fernando Pessoa.

In part one of my new blog post I consider what it means to love your audience.

In part 2 I dig up an old writing manifesto.

Two new blog posts are up at Her Circle Ezine about my time with the Diquiet International Literary Program, one about Pessoa & traveling, and one about saudade.

This week's blog post is about collaboration. I talk as much about Bunraku as I do about poetry, and if you have never seen a Buraku performance, I suggest you check it out. Puppets haven't been this cool since Fraggle Rock.

There's a new blog post up over at Her Circle Ezine about the joys of playing with meter and my favorite lines of poetry. You can check it out here.