Interview with AHP Poet Amie Whittemore

Thanks to the folks at Milk Journal and to Kory Wells for interviewing Amie Whittemore about her newest collection, Nest of Matches. We love interviews that engage not only with the solitary aspects of the creative process but with the importance of community as well. Of her book, Amie said:

As for how this push and pull of patience influences the writing process more generally, I’d say the shape of a book only emerges with time. I wrote the dream poems in Nest of Matches for years before seeing them as part of something larger, for instance; it was only when another critique partner, Allison Hutchcraft, saw how they were in conversation with other poems that I began to see how the dream poems, moon poems, and other poems could work in concert.

Read the full interview at the Milk Journal website.