Tyler Dempsey : part five

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?

Not poetry, but has that ‘feel’—The Little Prince.

Tyler Dempsey : part four

What other poetry books have you been reading lately?

City of Incandescent Light, by Matt McBride (Black Lawrence Press) walloped me. The “Acknowledgments” is more poetic than anything I’ve written. You immediately want to get it in the hands of everyone you love. I can’t say enough about it.

Tyler Dempsey : part three

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?

Edmond Jabés, Michael Ondaatje, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, ee cummings.

Tyler Dempsey : part two

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?

It shows “how” it should be read more than other mediums.

Tyler Dempsey : part one

Tyler Dempsey is the author of a book of poetry called Newspaper Drumsticks. His work appears in Heavy Feather Review, trampset, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Gone Lawn, and the like. He is a fiction reader at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. Find him on Twitter @tylercdempsey.

What are you working on?

I’ve put aside poetry to focus on flash fiction/CNF, my work from the past 13 years, trying to discern which are glued to one another thematically. I started a surreal crime novella back in March that I’m about to flesh out, too. All is part of a larger ‘collection.’