On Becoming a Poet (Chapter One)

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. “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.” −David St. John ,

Susan Terris is a freelance editor and the author of 8 books of poetry, 17 chapbooks, 3 artist's books, and 2 plays. Her new book is Green Leaves, Unseeing. ,