Overview
Original memoirs by outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds who recall how they found their beginnings. While university creative writing programs generally seek to develop the talents of maturing writers, essential information about the development of the craft will be found in these early memoirs. As poet and Writing Professor David St. John wrote the previous anthology: “Simply the best collection of essays I’ve ever read about the urgencies, accidents, experiences, and desires that allow people to emerge as the writers they had never dreamt they might become.”Author Biography
SUSAN TERRIS is a freelance editor and the author of 8 books of poetry, 17 chapbooks, three artist’s books, and two plays. Her recent books are: Green Leaves, Unseeing (Marsh Hawk Press), Dream Fragments (Swan Scythe Press: Winner) 2020, Familiar Tense (Marsh Hawk) 2019, Take Two: Film Studies (Omnidawn) 2017, Memos (Omnidawn) 2015; and Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk) 2012. SANDY McINTOSH has published sixteen volumes of nonfiction prose and poetry. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, Salon, Newsday, The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere.
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