This blog post features an interview with poet, professor and editor Kathy Fagan, who was a participant in the 2016 Skagit River Poetry Festival. In this interview, we discuss her approach to writing and mentorship as well as her new book of poems coming out in 2017. -Jessica Gigot
Photo Credit: Fritha Strand
JG: Your fifth book Sycamore is being released by Milkweed Editions in March of 2017. What can you tell me about this new book and how it came together for you?
KF: I’d say languages and weathers are what these Sycamore poems have made themselves from, seasons of listening to and watching everything, including art. My previous book, Lip, is very much engaged in experiments of voice and personae. It’s a talky, insolent book. I really do think of Sycamore as the listening book. A sort of stethoscope book. Its poems span about six years of writing ti