#tbt to pub day 2019!! Here’s me out back my old spot in my garden. I put a lot of work and lo
#tbt to pub day 2019!! Here’s me out back my old spot in my garden. I put a lot of work and love into those plants and the process of finishing this book want so different from gardening, it felt as much the process of the stories themselves arising from the soil as it was me crafting them. It felt more like I was coaxing them out from the dark, feeding them, waiting, returning, and then suddenly after 8 years and countless drafts the book was in the world. I’m so grateful to everyone who has read the book so far, who has reached out to me in thanks or encouragement. I’m grateful for every reading I got to do, from DC to LA. From rehabs and prisons to colleges and coffee shops, book stores and bars. It feels so much longer than a year, my life is very different. My mustache is much larger, I picked up a brain injury, got a face scar I don’t much like, and my hairline continues it’s long drawn out Minnesota goodbye, but I feel so light have released this book, healed and creatively free. Writing the poems was freeing but even more so giving them out to the world for them to live their own lives is even more so. Thank you @buttonpoetry for believing in me and this book, thank you readers for keeping more words and giving them legs and wings and little propeller hats. Join me tonight and help me celebrate, I’ll be reading the book in its entirety, telling jokes and answering questions! See you all 7pm central time on the Button YouTube channel for a livestream reading . . . . . #poetsofinstagram #poetry #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #spokenword #recovery #sober #sobriety #grief #norway #norge (en North MPLS) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1bGYDFKOs/?igshid=pfw4ey4jbidf -- source link
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