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Interviews

Catch up with Derek Sheffield in an interview.

Derek Sheffield Interviewed

2026

With Tori Lopez of Humanities Washington for Spark Magazine. “Poetry: The Language of Connection.” 

With Sam Mueller of the Peninsula Art League for The Palette. “An Artist by Nature.” 

2025

Matt Hoisch, an Emmy-nominated writer and broadcast journalist whose radio and television work has been featured on NPR and PBS stations across the U.S., interviews Derek Sheffield in an extraordinary venture, The Laureate Project, an audio odyssey to interview all of America’s state poets laureate in an effort to understand a bit more about this country from the perspective of its publicly appointed bards.

With Mark Petterson for Seattle University Magazine.

With Shin Yu Pai for UW Magazine.

With Sarah Neilson for The Seattle Times. 

With Dee Riggs for Foothills Magazine. 

With Rachel Baker (and a few marvelous students) for The Spokesman-Review. 

With Carolyn Bick for Gig Harbor Now.

With Petra Hernandez for The Comet Magazine. 

2023

With Dan Owens and CMarie Fuhrman for the Neill Public Library podcast. 

With Paisley Rekdal and Garrett Hongo for High Country News. 

With Mountaineer Magazine. 

2022

With Ron Evans for The Comet Magazine. 

2021

With MSU Press and Noah Davis on poetry and ecology by way of their poems in Not for Luck and Of this River. 

With David Gilmour for Sound Poetry, 101.9 Radio Tacoma

With Stephanie Hammett of The Spokesman-Review

With Todd Sullivan of Seoul, South Korea on how to read poetry

2008 – 2020

With Broadsided Press

With Orion Magazine and Todd Davis: Tracking a Poem: A Conversation.

With Canadian Poet and Editor Rob Lucas Taylor

With Chloe Allmand, Central Washington University

With Katie Brewer, Seattle Pacific University

With Rick Steigmeyer of the Wenatchee World

With Rachel Schleif of the Wenatchee World

With Flyway Editor, Andrew Peyton

With Write on the River

Derek Sheffield, Interviewer

In Love with Our Capacity for Flabbergastments: Derek Sheffield interviews Ross Gay for Terrain.org

Derek Sheffield interviews Alison Hawthorne Deming for The Wenatchee World

Derek Sheffield interviews Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street About their Collection, The Ecopoetry Anthology

Derek Sheffield interviews Christian Wiman for Orion

Talking Recklessly: Derek Sheffield interviews the Family of Poet William Stafford for the Seattle Review and Terrain.org

Middle-Class Cosmic Mechanic: Derek Sheffield interviews Ivan Doig for the Seattle Review and Terrain.org