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Poet Interview

World of Writing - Poet Interview Today we are featuring an interview with author Jess Parker. Jess resides in Madison, WI (US) where she works in business strategy, and has just released her very first book recently. Star Things ,  winner of the 2020 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize, contains ninety pages of " sixty-one brief yet powerful poems work in a broad array of forms, at once playful and dead serious, taking risks, toying with readers’ expectations and delivering seemingly effortless coups de grâce with a sly wink ." The author holds an M.A. of Spanish Literature from UW-Madison and an MBA. Jess invites you to visit her @:   www.jesslparker.com , or at Instagram and Twitter: @jessleapoetry Q: Do you feel like you can do more with poetry than prose? A: While I write both poetry and prose, I lean toward poetry for a number of reasons. Pragmatically, poetry lends itself toward shorter pieces that can be written in the nooks and crannies of the day. As a mom of a ten-mo...