I wanted to finally shut the door on the first chapter of my poetry-writing life by publishing my full-length manuscript that I finished in early 2016. This is a record of all the poems I had written up until that point. These poems feel very far away from me now, as I no longer identify with the speaker in these pieces, these stories. However I am very proud of this body of work and I am excited to finally share it with the world, after excavating it from the depths of my hard drive.
I started self-publishing in 2013 after realizing that was the only way I could take control of how my work gets published and distributed to readers (that and nobody would do it for me). This lead to my entry into the world of zines which is a community of which I'm very grateful to be a part. There are almost 80 poems in this collection, and if you could take away something from it I know that my self-publishing journey will not be in vain. See you on the other side!
