Last year, I filled five notebooks with poems and this year was the same – five notebooks filled with words.

(That first one was obviously a gift, y’all know writers are always getting journals and notebooks as gifts!)

So much of 2023 was focused on my book tour for Her Whole Bright Life, my third collection that was published by Write Bloody in April. It didn’t feel like I was writing that much but looking back, I can see I did write a lot. And that’s good because the next collection is percolating in my head and in the new year I’m going to see where it stands and starts fleshing it out.

I’m grateful for everything poetry brought me this year and I cannot wait to see what 2024 brings.