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, as a gift, so that we too might make a connection to ourselves. This is the generosity of the artist, the poet. Interview :: December 21, 2022 Marjorie’s work has been published in American Life in Poetry, Nimrod, Rattle.com, PoetryMagazine.com, RHINO, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, and other journals. She earned her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at UNL and has received the WILLA Award and the High Plains Book Award for her latest book in 2022, The Track the Whales Make. You can find out more about Marjorie and her work...
by Laurie Wagner | Oct 22, 2021 | Interviews
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado and she writes and shares a poem every single day with a large flock of followers all over the world. She’s that kind of writer – generous and bold – and has much to share with us about writing from everyday life. Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion, in back alleys and on river rocks. Interview :: April 28, 2020 Her poetry collections include Naked for Tea and Hush – winner of the Halcyon Prize for poetry of human ecology. Visit her at...
by Laurie Wagner | Oct 15, 2021 | Interviews
Marie Howe is an exceptional poet and human being who has much to teach us about living, writing and paying attention. She is another true menor of mine, and in this interview she is sitting in her apartment in New York during the pandemic, amidst an eerie quiet of ambulances and birds on the street below. At the end of the interview she reads from her gorgeous poem, Singularity, as well as talks to us about our changing world and how we want to re-enter it. Interview :: May 4, 2020 Marie is the author of numerous books of poetry including, Magdalene, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, and What the Living Do. She was a New York state poet laureate 2012-14, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and the Partisan Review, among others....
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 who has brought Wild Writing to her running community all over the world. I hope you have fun with this 20-minute interview we did at 7am in the morning, and which is all about running and writing. Interview :: May 4, 2020 Follow Lauren on Instagram @fleshmanflyer and listen to the wonderful podcast she does with her husband, Jesse Thomas –...
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 these strange times we live in. Interview :: October 4, 2021 Lynn Ungar’s first book of poetry, Blessing the Bread, earned her fans around the world, and her latest work which includes, Breathe and These Days, can be found on her website. Find out more about her work at...
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 fishing. His work asks us the universal questions: Where am I from? Where do I belong? Who am I in this world? Please listen for the poem he reads to us at the end of this 20 plus minute interview. Richard Blanco is the author of Looking for the Gulf Motel, How to Love a Country, and many others. Interview :: August 20, 2020 In 2015, the Academy of American Poets chose Blanco to serve as its first Education Ambassador. He has been named a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and has received honorary doctorates from Macalester College, Colby College and the University of Rhode Island. He has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air with Terry Gross, as well as major media from around the world, including CNN, Telemundo, AC360, BBC, Univision, and PBS. Blanco’s poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including the Best American Poetry series, The Nation, The New Republic, the Huffington Post, and Condé Nast Traveler....
