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An Interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize
['Passages North']
Passages North
Associate poetry editor Alex Watanen sat down with Diane Seuss to ask her a few questions about poetry, process, and rural writing. I have space for many kinds of poems, from language-centered, experimental poems to well-executed traditional forms to spoken word poems to epics. AW: In your essay in Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), you say “Poems are smarter than I am.