Our Page of Cups interview series explores how individual writers and artists connect with and use Tarot as a tool in their creative practice — and their life’s journey. Here, we talk with poet Derrick Austin, author of Tenderness and Trouble the Water, both from BOA Editions. His first chapbook, Black Sand, was released by Foundlings Press in 2022. Derrick is a Cave Canem fellow, a 2022-2023 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, and winner of the 2021 Isabella Gardener Award.