The Writer's Voice: Novelists, Poets, Memoirists & Editors Share Their Stories

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">How do writers develop their voice, showing us what is important in life?</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews22/ada-limon-mia-funk-7mggn-ln6ef"><strong>ADA LIMÓN</strong></a><strong> </strong>(24th U.S. Poet Laureate, <em>Startlement, The Carrying</em>) explains that her poetry begins with a bodily sensation or curiosity, not an idea. She values the space and breath poetry offers for unknowing and mystery, finding solace in the making and the mess, not in answers. She discusses being free on the page to be her whole, authentic, complicated self.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://jayparini.com/"><strong>JAY PARINI</strong></a> (Author, Filmmaker, <em>Borges and Me</em>) calls poetry the prince of literary arts—language refined to its apex of memorability. He recounts how his road tri...