Hey all

@daeus and @Josiah DeGraaf: I’ve written about (?) three hundred poems, but there are 102 in my book. I do both free verse and rhyme, all forms (mostly forms I make up), but sonnets are pretty cool and I’ve messed around with those a lot, using the pentameter but breaking up the lines or using the lines but changing the meter etc.

@Elizabeth: I have written so many stories! Not as much lately, since they take way more time/commitment than poetry and college has sucked all my time away from me…I do love fiction dearly, though.

@Dragon Snapper: I’ll make sure to. I hear they breathe fire. I’d rather not roast.

@Shannon: I’ve played piano for about eleven years, and adore it. I think music is one of the reasons I write poetry. Poetry isn’t poetry without music woven through it, and a piece has to have a story to mean anything…I think they’re almost the same thing in two different languages.

@Emily: Austin, Birdsall, Creech, Cummings, Dickens, Dickinson, Dostoyevsky, Homer, Lewis, Montgomery, Rowling, Shakespeare, Virgil…yes I do rather like to read.

@SeekJustice: I’m currently reading Olio by Tyehimba Jess. It’s a conglomeration of poems, interviews, pictures, letters and stories that talk about what it meant to be free or enslaved during Scott Joplin’s time and before, and how jazz and rag were an expression of that. Difficult to explain but really beautiful and moving. As for my favorite book of the Bible, how do I decide that??? But I am a fan of John, Ephesians, Revelation, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Genesis, if only because those are the ones I’ve dug into the most.