Oh, hi there! I’ve neglected this blog for a while. A move to DC and back for my husband’s job,new responsibilities at work, and my mother’s illness and death last year mean that poetry has been a lower priority post-MFA than I had hoped and planned. I didn’t have the heart for itfor a very long time.

But now it feels like the fog of grief is lifting a little, and soI’m using the (completely arbitrary) energy of a new year to get my creative life back on track. I’m making resolutions, and I’...