Saturday morning I sat at my desk, drinking my coffee and cleaning out drawers. During this purge I found an envelope with my name on it.

A note for me!

I recognized the handwriting as my own but didn’t remember writing it or stowing it in my desk drawer. I grabbed the letter opener and sliced it open.

Goals

After reading it I laughed a little. I wrote this to myself sometime in late 2015, writing down my goals for the following year. And it would seem, I’ve met those goals. In 2016, after much time thinking about it, I applied and was accepted to an MFA program, starting Queens University of Charlotte in January 2017. In October 2016 my first chapbook, All in the Family, was published by Bottlecap Press. I began submitting poems to journals and getting them published. In 2016 I read 54 books of poetry. I immersed myself in poetry in 2016, but I didn’t stop there. I kept going and now, poetry is one of the biggest, more important parts of my life. And I’m so grateful and so glad I pushed myself to do this thing I love. Yay goals, yay poetry, yay me.