My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book.… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind.… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
