My upcoming poetry book, “Pet”, on abuse and trauma, has gone through many drafts and iterations over the years. During the most recent round of revisions, knowing that we planned on publishing the book independently, we made some additions that…
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Patreon Bonus Content: Sketching the Birdcage for My Poetry Book
Before beginning to draw, I rounded up reference images of birdcages I found…
Patreon Bonus Content: Designing the Background Art of My Poetry Book
When I was looking at other people’s poetry book covers, I noticed I really liked the ones that had simple, abstract, and textured backgrounds. This is the kind of art that…
Patreon Bonus Content: Choosing the Color Palettes for My Poetry Book Cover
In the past, we always figured we’d hire someone to do the artwork for the cover of our book but when we decided to self-publish, we realized that we actually have enough skill to do a decent job ourselves!
The book is called “Pet: poetry on abuse and recovery” and it didn’t take very long to decide on the appropriate image…
Patreon Bonus Content: The Story Behind My Poetry Book on Abuse & Recovery
Between 2009 and 2013, I wrote dozens of poems that would later become part of a book on abuse and trauma recovery…
Patreon Bonus Content: Terzarima Written in High School
In my english class sophomore year, we were learning about different forms of poetry and at one point I chose to write a terzarima, which is a series of triplets that follow the rhyming scheme aba, bcb, cdc…(Read the rest on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: A poem by teenage Kella
This is a poem I wrote when I was around 16. The idea I mention in this poem of a stone that’s halfway between a diamond and a piece of coal…(Read the rest on Patreon)
Essay on The Bezine: Using Social Interactions to Create Change
An article of mine was published today on The BeZine, an online magazine that looks at efforts for peace, sustainability and social justice through the lens of art. They publish photography, poetry, essays, fiction, even music, that coincides with the theme of each issue. They are particularly interested in looking at the world’s problems with the intention of finding solutions. The BeZine also has direct ties to 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC), which was …Read More
How 100,000 Poets Are Fostering Peace, Justice & Sustainability
The writer of today’s guest post, Jamie Dedes, is a name you may have seen on this blog before, but not as a guest blogger. Jamie published an interview with me about activism and Yopp on her poetry and writing blog, and shortly after, she proposed a guest post about a world-wide social justice initiative that’s been brought about by thousands of poets all over the world. Fun fact about me, before I was a …Read More
Wealth with Virtue: All That You Wish to Win
Today’s guest post is part two of Violet Carson’s “Wealth with Virtue” series about the process of converting capitalism into business practices that fit their identity, life structure, and ethics. You can read the first post of the series here on Yopp and you can read further posts on their blog Lunisolarpunk Witch. ]having encountered ]wants ]to accomplish the plan ]I call out ]to the heart at once ]all that you wish to win ]to …Read More