10 Questions for Benjamin S. GrossbergThe bubbles of my words amuse him. —from Benjamin S. Grossberg’s “My Octopus Lover Is Easy To Talk To,” Volume 66, Issue 2 (Summer 2025)Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. I’m hard put to trace the influence of these masters back to the Octopus poems, but perhaps in a subclinical way it’s there. After not writing that novel for a while, I decided I’d give it a go as a series of poems. BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG’S books of poetry include My Husband Would (University of Tampa Press), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press), winner of a Lambda Literary Award.