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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. |
