[Poetry] is the way we ritually make meaning and sense of being alive on the earth, and this is important especially now when the earth is changing so drastically—largely because of certain stories and narratives that have taken hold, stories that tell us we are fulfilled only by what we purchase and own, that the whole world’s gifts are now commodities. — Holly Haworth
Mercer University Press’s blog series Writing Matters recently featured an interview with me. Here we talk a little about my career as a whole, how I came to poetry, what poetry means to me, and what the spiritual means in my poems.