Today marks the official release of Reckon.
I hope I’m not sending emails too frequently, but these are heady days for me. Sometime in 2019 I realized the poems I was writing wanted to be a full book. Since then, it’s been a long and winding road, but I don’t think it could have gone any quicker than it did – there were young kids to parent and serious soul-searching to undertake, not to mention finishing an MFA and research, reading, and more reading.
There’s more I want to say – and will say – about the process. But today I’m celebrating, and also passing along some ideas that I find useful when approaching revision. Revising poems is a creative act for me – many of the pieces in Reckon started out as stanzas in other poems. More on that below.
The book is out – tell a friend! Order a copy, or five!