I was trying to write poetry about my infertility, and not succeeding-I felt like I needed more complicated prose explanations of my condition than I could get away with in a poem. Tell us about the origin of your essay “That There Would Be Better Pornography.” What sparked the initial idea or caused you to start writing the first draft? Here, Barbara Duffey talks with interviewer William Hoffacker about technical writing, in vitro fertilization, and the subjunctive mood. You can visit her online at or follow her on Twitter essay, " That There Would Be Better Pornography," appeared in Issue Sixty-Three of The Collagist. She is an assistant professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University and lives in Mitchell, SD, with her husband and son.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and her prose in CutBank, The Collagist, and the anthologies Exigencies (Dark House Press, 2015) and Oh, Baby! (In Fact Books, forthcoming). Barbara Duffey is the author of the poetry collection I Might Be Mistaken (Word Poetry, forthcoming July 2015) and is a 2015 NEA Literature Fellow in poetry.
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