Patreon offers creatives a more sustainable model for crowdfunding—ongoing micro-payments from interested benefactors.

Guggenheim Fellow and poet Jane Hirshfield explains, “Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being.” Here are some creativity exercises to help awaken your mind to poetic thinking, and to clarify and magnify your poetry writing.

Some authors do it; others don't. But for those who do, why do authors cross out their name when signing books? We share author perspectives below.