ALL OUR MULTIPLICITIES: An Interview with Heidi Seaborn

Many of us go for a few weeks, months, even years without writing poetry. But Heidi Seaborn’s hiatus lasted for forty years until in 2016, she returned to the practice—and from there it was a whirlwind. In this interview, Heidi tells us about the shift from her successful business career as a communications executive to becoming an award-winning poet and Editor in Chief of The Adroit Journal. We also learn more about her writing practice: how has she remained so prolific? What was her process in developing her collections? Citing her teacher David Wagoner, Seaborn discusses the three phases of the writer: the mad writer, the craftsman, and the critic. By allowing ourselves to be “lazy” with our writing, she explains how we might let the madder, most inspired writer out onto the page. Ultimately, no matter which “self” we inhabit from poet to executive, what’s crucial to any career is to “keep our minds and our eyes open and pull from whatever we see…”

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