The Interplay Between Poetry and Short Stories

Drew Maguire: I want to talk about something that you brought up at the beginning, which was that you started with poetry and that kind of it led you in a roundabout way, perhaps, or in an unexpected way, at least into short stories. He says he always thought it would be really fun to go through Rhimes Reason and then try to write short stories sort of inspired from these different poetic structures. "There's a building within the form, but the structure is not stacking,"Maguire says. 'It's more like, I keep saying, see, I'm even doing it the way I talk'