When did you start writing poetry? I started writing poetry when I was 13 years old, so around the time I started high school. Is there anything in particular that inspired you to start writing poetry? I grew up reading a lot of short stories and fiction in general, but poetry appealed to me because of its concision, the concentrated power of its…

Under this Iowa sky, rain falls in slits around us the glittering eyelashes of angels who pray at god’s cloud-marbled floors. My breath is a fist of loose wind falling away to scared I will run out. & mother weeps at the wheel, her hips shaking with the car’s rumbling. We drive to the end of the field, the tear of the page full of corn lifting…