Scrap by Scrap, in Hunger Mountain Review

I'm so pleased that Hunger Mountain Review, the VCFA journal of the arts, just put live an article I wrote called Scrap by Scrap: Turning History into Poems. I wrote about the process of writing Borrowed Names: how it began as a book of prose for children, and why it changed it form; some of the poetic standards I set for myself, ways I mined images, and how I blended imagination and research. Here's an excerpt:

Writing these poems, I lingered with the images the way I once turned over old g...