Kurt Vonnegut on Creating

You know what they say about singing like no one’s listening… One of the key ways to develop creative confidence and live a creative life is to get in the habit of creating. Like anything else, creating and seeing yourself as a creative person takes practice, and the more you do it, the easier it…

James Gates Percival on Poetry in the World

Rita Dove on Poetry and Language

Lovely Litany by Matthew, Age 7

In honour of National Poetry Month in April, here’s a lovely litany that we published back in 2011 by then 7-year-old Matthew. Litanies, also known as list poems, typically catalogue a long series of items and often include repetitive phrases or ideas. What makes a litany MORE than just a list then? The careful selection…

Charles Baudelaire on Dancing and Poetry

Sylvia Plath on Living

Madeleine L’Engle on the Book that Wants to be Written

Peter Handke on the Importance of Storytellers

Samuel Johnson on Reading to Write

Michael Morpurgo on the Writer’s Life