The Private Dwelling: Three Poets on Keeping (and Destroying) Journals

by
Lisa Fay Coutley, Claudia Emerson, and Anna Leahy
From the September/October 2014 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
8.20.14

Writers discuss what prompted them to start or return to journal writing, and why sometimes it’s better to destroy rather than preserve such catalogues of the past.