Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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Your One Wild and Precious Life

Mary_Oliver_New_and_Selected_PoemsOn this last day of National Poetry Month, I’m keeping in mind two quotes from Mary Oliver. The first comes from her National Book Award acceptance speech:

Poetry happens because of life, and poetry happens because of language and poetry happens because of other poets

The other comes from a poem in New and Selected Poems, for which she won the National Book Award. The poem is titled “The Summer Day”:

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

I hope the answer includes reading more poetry. – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com