Creativity: Where Poems Begin

"Read this book out loud to find out more about where poems come from...Mackey's style is immensely lucid, readable, and engaging... This book will be enlightening not just to anyone interested in the creative process, but also to creative writing students at all levels, discovering in themselves their own pre-language source."― Synchronized Chaos Magazine

Chapter One Series: On Becoming a Poet

Mary Mackey is the author of eight poetry collections, including Sugar Zone, winner of a PEN Award, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, D. Nurkse, Al Young, Rafael Jesús González, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion. In 2022 her screenplay Time Piece won first prize in the City of Angels Women's Film Festival. Her most recent book Creativity: Where Poems Begin (Marsh Hawk Press) was a Northern California Book Reviewers Award finalist for Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in Northern California in 2023.