Mary Holman TuteurI began making poems when I was learning, awkwardly, how to make words. I wanted to say how the sunlight in the kitchen garden bounced off the grass blades and made them shine. That impulse led to poetry submersion in Berkeley in the sixties and an M from Stanford in Creative Writing in 1978. Then I forgot about the whole thing and became a psychotherapist.A friend challenged (or bullied) me back into writing when he noticed that I thought like a poet. So I plunged back into poetry in the 90s.Favorite teachers have been Seamus Heaney, Jean Valentine, Jane Hirshfield, Terri Ehret and Kim Addonizio.I've appeared in various publications including The Nation, The Hudson Review, the anthology WOMANPRAYERS, Marin Poetry Center Anthologies IV and, I believe, the current one. Read More Read Less