Michelle Boisseau

Poetry

Interviewed by: Angela Elam

Catalog Number(s): 20170623

Interview Year(s): 2017

In this interview at the Kansas City Public Library, poet, editor, and Guggenheim Fellow Michelle Boisseau discusses her fifth book, Among the Gorgons. She reveals how her own aging shed new light on some of the Greek mythology that inspired the Tampa Review Poetry Prize-winning collection. Also a co-author of the textbook Writing Poems, now in its eighth edition, Boisseau talks about her work as a literary citizen, and some of the poetry editing she’s done with BkMk Press to help other writers hone their books.