As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Michaela Rempel. Rempel discussed “Nighthawks,” never turning off her brain and played MFK with science fiction giants.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Bailey Schaumburg. Schaumburg discussed sass, self aware poetry and poet-lady sex. Schaumburg reads with Mark Feigenbutz and Leticia Gonzales at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 in O’Shaughnessy Performance Space.    Jackalope Magazine: How dare you? Bailey Schaumburg: I like to throw sass back when I get the sass. It’s like sass softball.   JM: How did you get into writing? BS: I’ve always liked writing, but I took a creative writing class in high school and just loved it.   JM: What genre do you work in and why? BS: Poetry. (awkward pause)   JM: OK, do you work in other genres as well? BS: Not really. I like to pull things from other genres into my poetry. Or try to. I fail miserably sometimes. I’d say fiction actually has helped me most, because it helps to tell lies.   JM: What three words would you use to describe your writing? BS: Uhh. The only three words that comes to mind are: bloody, shitty and badass. (laughs)   JM: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever written? BS: One time I wrote a poem about writing poems that was really self aware. It was horrible. It was sappy, maudlinesky as Dana [Levin)] would say. It was called the “Poem Poem” or something like that. It was bad.   JM: How do you balance work and family? BS: Yeah, I have a daughter named Calypso. Not really. I don’t very well.   JM: Marrry, Fuck, Kill: Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Ashton Kutcher. BS: Oh God. Fuck Sylvia, Marry Ashton, Kill Gertrude Stein. Sylvia and I would have crazed poet-lady sex!...

Jackalope’s ongoing interview series with members of CWL’s senior reading class continues: This week, Nick Martinez in advance of the 7 p.m., April 14 senior reading.