What, Why, How: Mary Jo Firth Gillett

“Be not afraid of greatness” ~ William Shakespeare What:

Since the earliest days, I’ve been drawn to language, the sound of consonant, vowel, syllable.  My parents made a recording of me at three reciting nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme in an impossibly high, piping, precocious little voice.  Later I became thrilled with the sense of “knowing” something of an author and another time from the writing. Even so, it seems too great a claim for me to say, “I’m a poet.”  But whether you call it p...