Meredith Heller is the author of Write a Poem, Save Your Life: A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages. It's an instructional book for anybody who wants to write or teach writing poetry. If you want to learn more about writing poetry, it's a title I recommend. 

In this episode, Meredith told me how she combines her career as a working poet with that of a massage therapist and teacher.

Meredith explains how having a job can inform your craft and can give you source material for your art. 

She is also a prolific journaler and had over 80 different journals that she used for material.

In this episode, we discuss.

• How Meredith combined her poetry with the work of her students in the book
• Meredith's techniques for getting her students to write about difficult topics
• The process for writing poetry
• Is poetry making a comeback?
• The key to writing while having a career

Resources.

• Write a Poem, Save Your Life: A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages 
• Meredith Heller

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