Hopping on here to say I never have, and never will, use AI to write my poems for me!

My self-published micro-chapbook of love poems is currently on sale for $3.27 USD 🩷

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Sure we can disagree and still be friends. If you're talking about pineapple on pizza or tea vs coffee or some shit. But if you're talking about certain people's right to exist, that's not a disagreement. That's a fundamental difference of morality and no we abso-fucking-lutely cannot be friends.

what we leave behind | 2021

The poem behind my current project 🤍 ‘what we leave behind’ will feature poems and prose about home, family, and belonging. This poem was first published in Sledgehammer Lit, who treated it with such care.

ink | 2024

Sharing a new poem in honor of a very sweet friend’s birthday 🤍

Ooh this is fun!

1 like = 1 thing I love

Question for other self-published writers: do you publish under a press name?

Like, have you registered yourself as a business, or created a press to publish your own work? Sometimes I feel like I’m doing this wrong and need to at least get a business license for myself to be more marketable.

Day 3 of my at-home writing day! I did some much-needed work on my website, and created some content to share soon. I also started outlining a chapbook series I began researching last year — a chapbook series based on the tarot deck, with each card being a different poem/short prose piece.

Day 2 of my at-home writing retreat! A couple of years ago, I wrote a chapbook…but it never really felt complete. I decided to turn it into a full-length collection of poems about home, belonging, and family.

Day 1 of my at-home writing retreat! I spent the day re-outlining a collection of recipes, poems & essays about food, and starting a few drafts of those essays.

I have a long “weekend” (Wed-Fri, I work weekends) and I’m going to treat it like a writing retreat. Wake up, make breakfast, write, make lunch, write, make dinner, write, read before bed.

Will I get distracted by other stuff? Absolutely. Will I write? Yes, but probably less than I’m hoping to.

Report with your creator goals for 2025:

- use art & writing to process how I feel
- complete at least the first draft of my full-length poetry book
- complete at least the first draft of my hybrid book
- finish my planned chapbooks & start the publishing process
- submit to lit mags again

every year, “I say I’m not going to do so much next year.” here I am, halfway through baking 10 dozen cookies, one cake baked and one more to go, need to decorate both tomorrow, make several dozen cannoli, and also a cheesecake. I’m TIRED.

my goal for 2023 was to publish my first book. I did it.

so what’s next? more books, more poems, & more accomplishments.

so happy to be here!