Anna Journey

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I…

— Anna Journey

I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this…

— Anna Journey

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get…

— Anna Journey

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to…

— Anna Journey

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit…

— Anna Journey

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

— Anna Journey

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…

— Anna Journey

Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,…

— Anna Journey

I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and…

— Anna Journey

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows).…

— Anna Journey

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

— Anna Journey