We love learning more about our contributors, and an interview seemed like a fun way to hear more about the writers and artists we publish, so we gave them a choice of questions to answer. We hope you also enjoy hearing more about the artists and their works. Read on and check out issue 21 for work from Lois Marie Harrod.

Or you can let them read to you!


What was the inspiration for the piece published in the issue?
My husband of 57 years died on June 15, 2022.  And he keeps wanting to see what I am doing.  Memory--that strange thing.  I remember Stephen Dunn saying that, when his mother died, his firt thought was, "Now I can write a death poem."


If you’re part of a workshop group or other creative community, tell us about it! How did it form, what all do you do, and how does it help your creative process?they come?
I have two tremendous groups:  Delaware Valley Poets/US 1 Poets Cooperative--over 100 members who Zoom weekly in chat rooms and publish US 1 Worksheets --and Cool Women, a group of women who I have been critiquing, reading with and publishing anthologies since the l990's


What is your favorite vice? What are you drinking at happy hour, in a literal or a metaphorical sense?
A glass of wine at 4 pm and a good book.


Why did you feel like After Happy Hour would be a good home for this piece?
I like the opportunity to read my poems if accepted.


Who or what inspires your work generally?
Inspiration--that's just getting up every morning and writing.