What, Why, How: Terry Blackhawk

What:

I am one of the lucky children whose parents brought poetry into her life at an early age. The Silver Pennies poetry anthology was a constant companion, and by the time I was ten I was writing poems of my own, sealing them with wax, and hiding them in secret places in the woods behind our house. I edited Manuscript, my high school’s literary magazine, and in 1968 submitted for my final project as a Literature grad at Antioch College a portfolio of experimental writings titled “ex/p...