Professor of English Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand/Guernica Editions), has been named by Poets & Writers as one of the 鈥淏est Books for Writers.鈥 This 200-page writing guide combines Gillan鈥檚 personal story as a poet and author with her suggestions for writers at all stages of development. More than half of the book is comprised of writing prompts designed to give poets confidence and help them overcome writers block, jumpstart creativity and silence the critical voice. .
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 25, 2014