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...
by Laurie Wagner | Jul 29, 2021 | Interviews
The poet, Naomi Shihab Nye is a national treasure, and generous beyond measure. She is a natural teacher, and is completely lit up, and on fire. In this interview she has so much to share about what it is to walk the world as a creative person, gathering moments as...
by Laurie Wagner | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
It’s all in the frame. That’s what my friend Nan said when I told her about the car accident last week, the way I barreled into the intersection, the collapse of the cars, the older Asian man who emerged from his vehicle intact. It’s all in the frame, she said, how I...
