5 over 50

For the past nine years 5 Over 50 has featured authors who published their debut books later in life, authors who prudently used the fertile soil of their life journeys to produce works of poetry and prose that benefitted from their having moved through what one such writer, Deborah Jackson Taffa, calls the potential “callowness of youth” and into a space of patience, trust, experience, and healing. The following debut authors over the age of fifty share stories of listening to an inner voice urging them to be a writer, having a natural disaster bring them back to poetry, falling asleep with a pen in hand every night, honoring and exploring their inner child to the fullest, and coming back to the radiant energy of a manuscript shelved for years.…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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