Tag: memory
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Art for Artists and Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson passed away on June 11th, 2025. I went to work the next day, keeping my composure for most of the commute, until “It’s Not Easy Being Me” started playing. The grandiose instrumentation, paired with frustrated, earnest lyrics, was comforting in a way. A song from the heart, adorned with sound, like a pat…
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Goodbyes
The stages of grief are so well-known they’ve joined the armchair psychologist’s lexicon. However, if you’ve experienced grief, you’ve probably noticed the moment you passed through each stage, how you can still fluctuate between them. Sometimes, when you think you’ve reached Acceptance, you start Bargaining again. Or you’re mired in Bargaining and slip back into…
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Writer’s Rush
In the past two months, too much happened. I got engaged, which coincided with both my birthday party and parents’ visit, and performed in a ton of cabaret shows and poetry open mics. Now, I’m writing to you from a cottage in the Cotswolds, complete with a bucolic high street, fireplace, and shops full of…
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Review: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Since I last wrote, I’ve received countless rejections and a couple acceptances. I’ve performed in my first poetry slam competition, and been recruited as a featured poet for a festival in Oxford. I’ll post next week about that, but just know the swings and roundabouts are giving me motion sickness and I guess that’s a…
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Performance
Baby’s first pamphlet, Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival, 2014 Recap: I’ve been rejected from two prose competitions and one poetry journal. I’ve submitted my work to many, many more to outpace these rejections. I attended my monthly poetry reading group, a poetry workshop in London, a craft talk with the inimitable George RR Martin, and…