new work!
It’s been a while! As you can imagine, my routine has been shaken up significantly by the global pandemic, hence my several months of relative radio silence. Fortunately, I return bearing gifts:
My aunt, on ‘Entreaty to the rattlesnake population of Griffith Park.’
SAND Issue 21, featuring my poem ‘Entreaty to the rattlesnake population of Griffith Park,’ is now available to buy! It’s an amazing issue full of immense talent, and I feel earnestly fortunate to be a part of it. It’s their ten-year-anniversary issue, too, so it all feels extra exciting.
Lucent Dreaming Issue 7, featuring my poem ‘(baby don’t hurt me)’, is also available to buy, and frankly, would you look at that cover design. There will also be an interview with me appearing on the Lucent Dreaming blog sometime soon; watch this space for more on that.
A short essay on trying to write during an international crisis, Living in a Metaphor, will be going live as part of Reckoning’s Creativity and Coronavirus series early next week. I do not think I am alone in having found these past months an immense creative struggle, so it’s really a relief to have written anything at all, even if it’s ultimately a reflection on my inability to write. (As I’m a member of the editorial team at Reckoning, I’ve waived payment for this essay; the money will go to Rewilding Britain, in line with the magazine’s mission of environmental justice.)
Lastly, I’ve been keeping an informal, sporadic newsletter of dispatches from lockdown — if you would like to subscribe, you can do so for free over at The Anchorite.
I hope you are all staying safe, making smart mask-related choices, and finding ways to keep going.