by Laurie Wagner | Oct 8, 2021 | Interviews
Some of you know the incredible Lauren Fleshman, a former track and field athlete, who was the U.S. 5000 meters champion in 2006 and 2010. She currently coaches the professional women’s running group, Little Wings Athletics, and is a former Wild Writing trainee...
by Laurie Wagner | Oct 4, 2021 | Interviews
Lynn Ungar came to my attention through her tremendous poem, Pandemic, which went viral during the pandemic. I talk to her here about the connection between her work as a minister and her work as a poet, and what it’s like to write and share poetry in response to...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog
My 84-year-old mother, Suzy, is getting a basketball hoop put in her driveway. Not for the grandkids, not for her neighbors, but for herself. She came to this decision in therapy last week when she figured out why she’d been so blue this past year. “I need to find my...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 27, 2021 | Interviews
Richard Blanco, Obama’s fifth inaugural poet, and whose poem, One Today, was read at the 2013 inauguration, is a true creative who practices a kind of Wild Writing that he calls Fever Writing. In this delicious interview he talks about writing as a kind of...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 20, 2021 | Interviews
Alison Luterman is another one of those poets who I learn so much from. Her commentary on living and loving is grounded in a kind of gritty urban beauty that makes it accessible for all of us. She has taught me how to write about the most simple things with humor,...
