An Interview with Blair Trewartha
Posted on April 23, 2024
Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott's Interview with Blair Trewartha whose poems "Sifto" and "Equal Temperament" were published in Issue 298 (Winter 2024)
Poetry Interviews
Interview with Poetry Contest Winner Moni Brar!
Posted on April 12, 2023
Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott’s Interview with 2022 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize Winner Moni Brar
Interview with Melody Wilson
Posted on April 5, 2023
Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott’s Interview with Winter 2023 Contributor Melody Wilson
Rosie Leggott: Do you write all of your poems based on personal experience, or do you ever draw on the experiences of others that you are passionate about? When do you know that you will write about something? Is it in the moment (as it appears with Postmodern Pedestrian), or is it more reflective (as it appears in Hand Me Down)?
Congratulations to Poetry Contest Winner Marco Melfi!
Posted on April 6, 2022
We're excited to announce that Marco Melfi is the winner of the 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! His poem “The Faulty Porch Light” will appear in the Spring 2021 issue of The Fiddlehead. Thank you again to our judges Selina Boan, Matthew Gwathmey and Susan Musgrave, and to all who entered the poetry contest!
Interview with Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal
Posted on March 3, 2022
Editorial Assistant Shauna Deathe's interview with Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal about her poem “On Survival and Exhalation” from the new BIPOC Solidarities Issue.
Congratulations to Poetry Contest Winner Emma Miao!
Posted on April 6, 2021
We're excited to announce that Emma Miao, a poet from Vancouver, BC, is the winner of the 2020 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! Her poem “Rabbits on the Balcony” will appear in the Spring 2021 issue of The Fiddlehead. Born in 2004, she was commended in the 2019 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, won the 2021 Frog Hollow Press Chapbook Contest, and has been published in numerous literary journals. Check out editorial assistant Eliza Ives' interview with Emma about her prize-winning poem!
Thank you again to our judges Canisia Lubrin, Jenna Albert and Adèle Barclay and to all who entered the poetry contest!
An Interview with Conor Kerr, Poetry Winner
Posted on April 20, 2020
The Fiddlehead Editor Sue Sinclair interviewed Conor Kerr about his poem, "Amiskwaciy Nehiyawak (Beaver Hills Cree),” that won our Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and will appear in the Spring 2020 issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 283).
An Interview with Barbara Pelman
Posted on March 6, 2020
Editorial Assistant Melissa Spohr Weiss interviewed Barbara Pelman about her creative process—inspiration, poetic form, and the craft of writing. Barbara Pelman’s memoir will appear in the upcoming special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead.
An interview with Anna Swanson
Posted on February 21, 2020
Editorial Assistant Melissa Spohr Weiss interviewed Anna Swanson about swimming and writing, creating “found poetry” out of “garbage words,” and her mode of poetic creation that at once came out of and embodies the lived experience of physical and cognitive constraints following a serious concussion. Anna Swanson’s poem, “Portals,” will appear in the upcoming special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead that will be published in spring
An Interview with Susan Musgrave
Posted on February 14, 2020
Editorial Assistant Melissa Spohr interviewed Susan Musgrave about her creative process, the roles of emotion, dreams, unknowing, and the subconscious, and the poet’s relationship to the poem in its becoming and ongoing revision. Three of Susan Musgrave’s poems—"More Than Seeing," "What We Do,“ and "Life in the Uncontainable World"—will appear in the upcoming special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead that will be published in spring.
Photo credit: Regina Akhankina
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Current Issue: No. 298
