My Book!

I am thrilled to share the news that I have a book of poetry coming out this year.   In fact, I'm looking over a draft copy right now.  This is a goal I've been consciously working toward for several years.  As a writer, I see my role, usually, as the servant of the poem.  I'm not so much making the poem express what I want to say as helping the poem discover what it wants to say.  Implicit in this way of experiencing the writing process is the sense that poem wants to be read -- wants to be received, wants to give itself to someone who will enjoy it, who will love it, perhaps even need it.  My prayer for this book is that it will wing its way to the readers these poems are dreaming of.

Love this cover image.  "Ghosting" by Owen Rose

Fly, little poems, fly!