by Laurie Wagner | Sep 10, 2021 | Interviews
Ellen Bass is one of my favorite poets and people. Her work is instructional, showing us not only how to create beauty on the page, but also how to live it off the page. She calls herself a praise poet because she never forgets that we’re going to die – which is...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 1, 2021 | Interviews
Maya Stein is a writer I rely on to help me understand how to live in this world with sensitivity, artistry, and grace. Her observations on living, from a poet’s point of view, are always illuminating. Maya has taught me and so many writers to pay attention to the...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 1, 2021 | Interviews
Poet, and nonfiction writer, Susan Vespoli is such a great example of someone who uses the material from her life to create from. In this interview we talk about how to take the base stuff of life and turn it into the gold for poems and essays. We also talk about how...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 1, 2021 | Interviews
I had the honor of interviewing poet, Nan Seymour this morning. We used her prayer/poem, Let Them Say, in the live Zoom class this past Monday. I’ve loved all the interviews I’ve done in the last year, but I was completely moved by Nan’s magic in...
by Laurie Wagner | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog
“Life in the liminal state asks us to carry a heavier mental load,” Dhruv Khullar, from an article in The New Yorker, August 22, 2021. We’re Inventing New Weather. That’s what my friend Nan said to me the other day. “We’re inventing new weather,” she said, as she made...
