by Laurie Wagner | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog
One of the first things I noticed when I walked into my mother’s house last Sunday night was that she had taped the same printed message on little pieces of paper all over the house – on her bathroom mirror, on the wall across from her bed, the refrigerator, by...
by Laurie Wagner | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
Is it enough to take these notes? To be a collector of moments? To be someone who notices the smallest things and who writes them down? Can the bits and pieces of this life; the way he reached for my hand, the text from the sick child, the banjo sitting in the corner...
by Laurie Wagner | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog
So I won’t forget the look on my 85-year-old mother’s face when she came upstairs to make contact with me after our little tiff during the holidays. I write to slow that moment down so that I can remember the timid sound of her knock on my door, and the way she...
by Laurie Wagner | Dec 21, 2022 | Interviews
Marjorie Saiser is a poet living in Nebraska, and is a member of the Wild Writing Family. She writes poems, first for herself, as a way to connect, to find out how she feels, and as a way to locate herself in the world. From there, the poems come to the people, to us,...
by Laurie Wagner | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog
Some of the richest experiences I’ve had in my life have been when I’m alone, far from home, often in another country. There’s something about being one single human being standing on my own two feet, far from the comforts of home and the things I think I need to make...
