Interviews

At some point I decided that I was going to drop genre altogether and just follow the story. I would write and follow it.

I am much better in the stage of doing than I am in the stage of pondering.

I often have concerns about sharing too much of myself.

My poetry and photography are extensions of each other. I like to think of my photography as the abstract poetry I cannot write.

I say that to say all religion is practice, is an interpretation of faith, I guess my interest in religion tends to be more sociological and anthropological.– Kaveh Akbar

It was more liberating to invent a place and invent stories out of the stories I’ve heard.

I have always believed that “the personal is political and the political is personal.” So to make sense of it all, I have to distill these all-consuming horrors down into a drop that I can manage through first a few words, then a few sentences.

The role of the poet is to try to keep speaking truth and shining a little light. The role of the poet is to stand up for human beings whose weeping voices are not being heard. – Naomi Shihab Nye