Freesia McKee

Freesia McKee, the 2022-2023 Poet-in-Residence at Ripon College, writes about the influence of personal and collective histories on how we experience place. She practices poetry, creative prose, book reviews, and literary criticism. Her work has appeared in Foglifter, Tinderbox, Yes Poetry, and The Ploughshares Blog. Find her at FreesiaMcKee.com.

Content by Freesia McKee

Field Notes,

“Work Is Its Own Cure”: Poetry and the Comfort of Commitment

BY Freesia McKee

It felt revolutionary that the act of writing could also solve some of the problems it creates. This idea checked out with all those analogies people make between writing and meditation or running or healing—we write through discomfort and find some wholeness on the other side. The challenges tend to be worth it.