Creative writers don’t earn much in this country, unless they lend their talents to someone else, for far less literary reasons than writing a novel or a collection of poems.
I was struggling after being medically retired from the Army, but a creative writing program made me feel like I belonged somewhere again, Army veteran Alexis Laryea writes in a guest column ...
Henry Taylor was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia to write exquisitely crafted verses about wild places.
My creativity comes in waves. I will have a week where I am constantly creating, and then next week, it feels like I have to scrape the sides of my brain with a spatula in order to get anything out.