Selected
Press
Interviews
&
Essays
“The Flood of Experience: Long Exposure”
Review and Interview by Madelaine Caritas Longman
Montreal Review of Books (2025)
“Breaking open the craft of writing”
Interview by Sheelagh Caygill
On Creative Writing (2025)
The Poetry of Leadership
Interview by Shakeel Barmal
The Navigating Disruption Podcast (2024)
“Six Questions”
Interview by rob mclennan
chaudiere books (2023)
“My Writing Day”
my (small press) writing day (2019)
“Writing Spaces: Stephanie Bolster”
The New Quarterly (2018)
“Having devoted much of my life to helping writers craft well-made poems, I’m finding it invigorating to break open that craft, to express the mess and overwhelm of contemporary life.”
“A first draft is rarely a final draft. Poetry requires work as much as, or more than, it requires inspiration.”
“I’ve heard it said the only safe terrain is to write about oneself because you’re not encroaching on anyone else’s material experience of trauma. But at the same time, I don’t feel like I know where I end and someone else begins […] There’s no pure self that is not touched by other people.”
“In Conversation with Stephanie Bolster”
Interview by Susan Gillis
Concrete and River
“Micro-Interview”
Poetry in Voice
“Poet Chat with Stephanie Bolster”
CBC Radio (2013)
“Questions and Answers”
Canadian Literature
“Stephanie Bolster Spotlighted”
Poetry Quebec (2009)
“12 or 20 questions with Stephanie Bolster”
rob mclennan’s blog (2008)
“Poetry, Photography, Painting: Stephanie Bolster's World”
by Anne Compton
Studies in Canadian Literature (1999)
“Having found a subject, perversely, liberates me from being beholden to it.”
(Concrete & River)