Why does creativity matter? I think about imagination and creativity and its place in our fast-paced world. For me, poetry has always been a way of slowing down. The music and the layers of a poem are something to savor. My favorite poets (and they change regularly) can be read over and over. I've been a therapist, an educator, a waitress, a medical records clerk, a professor, and a writer-in-residence. I've been a writer as long as I can remember. I strive to write in a way that reflects what I perceive; an emotional truth, if not an actual truth. I am the author of three collections of poetry; most recently a collaborative collection with an Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills called The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press 2011). My previous collection Talking to Trees (Finishing Line Press) was nominated for the L.L. Winship Pen New England Award. I have a forthcoming collection, Insufficient Thanks due to be published in 2012. I also write fiction and creative nonfiction. Writing matters because it is how we communicate. Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

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Laure-Anne Bosselaar Lisa's Blog
Annie Finch Poetry Daily
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Learning about poetry Poets and Writers
Stonecoast MFA Program Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Poetry Foundation Associated Writing Programs
Academy of American poets Finishing Line Press
The Frost Place in New Hampshire Flora Fauna Fungi
100 Thousand Poets for Change Eastern Connecticut State University

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