April is National Poetry Month. Over at Hugo House's new blog, there are good interviews with local poets Karen Finneyfrock:

BM: You’ve said that you are still learning to create poems that “work on the page.” Does your approach to a poem change if you are writing it for the stage or the page?

KF: Absolutely, yes. As a writer, I am constantly thinking about my audience. When I write a poem for the stage, I imagine the people in the crowd listening and digesting the poem with their ears. (Now that's a creepy image.) When I write a poem for the page, I imagine the reader sitting by a window in a comfy chair and cracking open a book. Since the medium for experiencing the poem is different, I use a different method for creating it. Most of my spoken word pieces are written in my head while I'm walking, washing dishes or sweeping. Most of my “page poems” are written with a pen in a notebook.

and Ed Skoog:

KL: When you’re revising your own poems, what does that process look like?

ES: Sloppy, full of reversals and turn-arounds. I figure that since poetry doesn't much matter to anyone, I can spend as much time on it as I wish.

National Poetry Month is one of those obligatory things in blog-land. Everyone writes a post (or a lame series of posts) about poetry in April and then they forget about it for the rest of the year. But this is a good way to get reacquainted with Seattle's best poets in a tasty, accessible format. Hugo House's blog has been getting interesting lately, but these interviews are really something else. Give them a read.