Art Chowder January | February 2018, Issue 13 | Page 29

POET LISA CONGER
By Karen Mobley
“I
t is hard to say who my
favorite poets are. I have many:
Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye,
Gregory Orr, William Stafford, Billy
Collins, John Fox. And the poets
in my classes! In all these years of
poetry writing and sharing, I have
sent off only a few poems to be
published. At the end of this past
summer, I decided to put together
a manuscript of poems and send
them off. Generating poems and
organizing them for publication use
different parts of the brain. Whether
I am published this time or not,
I am grateful for the experience
of organizing, considering and
revising. Of course there is a sense
of accomplishment when you see
your name in print, but for me, it is
the process of writing and playing
with words that it is the most
meaningful and enjoyable.”
If you are interested
in seeing Conger’s presentation on
“The Creative Life,” visit
www.sundaystreams.com/go/uucs
for July 23, 2017.
Go to the timeline at 37:03.
In this presentation I share some
about my creative process, as well
as some of my poetry.
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