A Mini-Q&A with Angela Hine

Angela’s poem “The Cold Brother” was recently published on The Dock. Here's a mini Q and A with our poetry editor, Jackie, and Angela to get you excited.  Read the piece here.

Jackie Balderrama:The poem is based on a real event which I heard about from someone, who had heard from someone, who had heard from someone else. Some details, such as the setting, are factual: I knew what the weather was like that day and I was familiar with the creek and the dam. The omniscient speaker, I think, was born of my struggle to imagine what everyone in this unimaginable situation was feeling. Mortality and weakness were both the inevitable conclusion and discovered through the process. I think that’s why that line, “you see where this is going,” got in there—there was no other conclusion, no other way for the story to go. 

Angela Hine: The poem is based on a real event which I heard about from someone, who had heard from someone, who had heard from someone else. Some details, such as the setting, are factual: I knew what the weather was like that day and I was familiar with the creek and the dam. The omniscient speaker, I think, was born of my struggle to imagine what everyone in this unimaginable situation was feeling. Mortality and weakness were both the inevitable conclusion and discovered through the process. I think that’s why that line, “you see where this is going,” got in there—there was no other conclusion, no other way for the story to go.

Angela Hine is a recent graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently working as a Technical Writer in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jackie Balderrama is the Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review.