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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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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 why...

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...