Honored, honored, honored. 🙏🏻 And so pleased you KNOW that smell. God, what a smell.

Thanks for sharing! :)

(also I feel like one of the bigger tells that I'm more at peace with my waking hours is how easy dry january's been this go-around; previous years have been...difficult to a degree I haven't felt brave enough to confront or unpack, but tbqh I've barely noticed it this year)

(to be clear this applies largely to individual life conditions and not to large-scale sociocultural phenomena, which are as dreadpacked as they ever were—but at least not i'm not compounding climate doom with hating my job, etc)

and yet

this

from my experience working in publishing it's very uncommon to make a significant, long-term profit from a poetry book—it's just not a big-selling genre, so advances and royalties tend to be more modest. energetic publicity and event planning can help, but it's still usually a break-even thing.