First, an announcement!

This month's featured poet is also an editor of an upcoming poetry anthology known as "Civilized Beasts" by Weasel Press.
Be sure to keep a watchful eye out next year for the book's realease!
You can also buy last year's edition to get a feel for what it is about.

And now, on to the featured poet for December 2016!

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For our final featured poet of this year, we would like to congratulate  dwale as our Poet of the Month for December 2016.
We will feature the following poems by Dwale (which were conveniantly typed up into one plain text file):

Face Down in the Leaves
Revenant
Untitled

And now, on to our interview questions:

1. When did you begin writing poems and verse?

Dwale: "I don’t remember exactly, but I was young. I think it was when I was still in elementary school."

2. What inspires and/or motivates your poetry the most?

Dwale: "My emotional responses tend to be flat compared to those of most others. Poetry has long been a means by which I express the feelings I can’t share in any other way."

3. Does your work take influences from any poets in particular?

Dwale: "Certainly. Keats, Frost, Dickinson, Hughes and many others, as well as lyricists such as Danzig and Roger Waters."

4. And, similarly, who might be your favorite poet of all time?

Dwale: "I don’t believe I have one. When I read poetry, I prefer anthologies as opposed to the collected works of single authors. That’s to keep from getting too used to a given style."

5. What about your favorite poem of all time? Explain?

Dwale: "This one’s easy: my favorite poem is the untitled piece recited by the character Silverweed in Richard Adams’ “Watership Down.” It moved me to tears the first time I read it. I’ve been striving to write something that good ever since. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this was the catalyst that drove me to pursue writing as more than just a hobby, and it was one of the key events in determining the course of my life, for good or ill."

6. Aside from poets, do any others arts or artists inspire you?

Dwale: "Sure. Some mediums hold more appeal than others, but the various modes of human expression are fascinating on the whole. There are too many to start naming names or else we would be here all day."

7. Similarly, do you practice any other arts besides poetry?

Dwale: "I do. I’m a musician and a writer of fiction. Every few years I get in into my head to take up drawing again, but I find it too tedious to pursue at length. I’m also interested in tailoring and filmmaking."

8. And what hobbies and interests, if any, do you have outside the arts?

Dwale: "Science, philosophy, sumo, foreign cultures, history… No information is so trivial that it can’t be put to use by a writer."

9. Would you like to provide one interesting fact about yourself readers should know?

Dwale: "I would like to provide several dozen, but as it stands I can’t think of a single one. Sorry, I’m boring!

Thanks again to  dwale for agreeing to be our poet of the month.
~ corvus32346 (Founder)