This interview with Kristina Ortiz of Lunch Ticket has ten questions about my writing practice.

What’s your writing practice like?

“I write first drafts pretty quickly. I carry a notebook with me almost always, though it contains all kinds of things—notes from lectures I’ve heard, quotations I like, whatever crosses my path, and then drafts of poems. At some point I transfer poems to the computer and begin revising.

My ideal writing situation would include hours of concentrated work revising, figuring out how poems connect to each other, researching, and making notes. Realistically, that happens far less often than I would like.”

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I was interviewed on Montana Public Radio about my book What Does Not Return. From them: it “is a rare account of the experience we have come to call, rightly, care-giving. With ritual attentiveness, in small, deeply considered gestures, in words exchanged at the altar of grief, she shows us what it might mean to honor and celebrate what is given to us and what is taken away." -- Melissa Kwasny

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Listen to this interview with KUFM Montana: During this program, Tami Haaland talks about her creative inspirations, her work at Montana's Women's Prison, and reads from her latest collection of poems: 'When We Wake in the Night' (View Full Description)