I can finally share news I’ve been sitting on since January! I will be one of ten writers—five poets and five novelists—featured in “Resistance: An Anthology of Overcoming.”
The book will be published this summer by Awatum Press; the hard-cover pre-sale began this week.
This two-volume series examines the nature of resistance through different lenses—one literary, the other academic—to arrive at a more full understanding.
Poets and novelists explore resistance as a human tension that permeates many aspects of our lives. The companion volume features essays written by PhD’s at universities around the world that examine the philosophy of resistance.
In addition to my collaboration with Awatum Press, I am busy writing my next full length poetry collection.
When I began writing my new collection, I had in mind a story arc that would start in the less fearful days before the after in which we now find ourselves: democracies in decline; an epidemic of loneliness; the unknowns of AI; the degradation of natural resources; war inflicted by dime-store drones.
But that story would have been wrong because it diminishes our uniquely human superpower:
hope.
Bad days don’t replace good days. The reverse is more true. Better days have always followed depressions, wars, and epidemics.
In the after-times ahead, we reclaim our right to trust, to be happy, to feel free.
In my first collection, Seeking Ordinary Joy, I traced the journey we walk from restlessness to happiness. This collection may be its prequel.
Seeking Ordinary Joy 