Faith Shearin

The poet Mark Doty describes your work as the “wise wish to be able to love and to see clearly at once.” How useful is poetry as a vehicle for exploration? Do you go into writing a poem knowing what it is about?

Like a lot of writers, I write to see what I think; I write my way toward some kind of elusive revelation. I contemplate a scene or image that haunts me. I am continually surprised by what I find.

Faith Shearin Interview