10 Questions
10 Questions for Chris Forhan
- By Abby MacGregor
They said dragoon and sconce and prithee then
and cursed not their work—rock-hauling, hog-murdering, thatch-gathering,
even as it stiffened their fingers, wrenched legs into question marks.
—from “What Is the Cause That the Former Days Were Better Than These?”, Spring 2019 (Vol. 60, Issue 1)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
My earliest extant poem is one I wrote when I was eight and gave to my mother for Mother’s Day. I put a carnation in the poem so that I had a rhyme for “celebration”—already I was letting form determine content. A couple of years later, I wrote a short novel that my fifth-grade teacher thought impressive enough to read aloud to the...
