One-Sentence Poetry Special Issue

So if you read my interview linked in the last post you’ll know that I co-run two literary magazines (how on earth? that’s a story for another day). I’d love to tell you more about them and I have vague plans to (as much as I ever have plans for anything) but today I’m sharing our newest publication — For National Poetry Month (April) we invited our followers on social media (bluesky and instagram) to participate in a one-sentence poetry challenge, based on a one-word prompt each day. Then we chose a winner for each day and put them together in this special issue, which you can now read!

Enjoy! https://epistemiclit.com/nationalpoetrymonth-one/

Where have I been? Well… in bed.

I’ve been writing, I’ve been editing literary magazines, but mostly I’ve been… very sick. I really want to come back to actively posting here but honestly WordPress stresses me out and I’ve been getting in my own way about there being a “right” way to blog (make it pretty! graphics! links! etc) and all those things are just more than usually too much for me. SO I’m going to try to approach this like I approach the rest of my life (because I have to): do what I can, if I can, in whatever way works for me.

I’m starting with this — a link to an interview I recently did with Wild Willow Magazine for the “moms” issue. “Momming from bed” is the topic, and it gives a glimpse into where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to and the weird, sick person life I live (and therefore the weird life my family lives).

I’d be honored if you’d read it, and hopefully I’ll be back soon to talk about books and words and writing and reading and fighting book bans and raising kids who react to bookstores with wonder and awe and all such things. We’ll see what my body thinks.

I’m on page 43:

https://wildwillowmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wwm-issue-6.pdf

I wrote a book and I’m giving it away for free

I wrote a poetry book! It’s a short collection of poems and lyrical prose I wrote over the the last year and a half based on one-word twitter prompts — and if you sign up for my new newsletter, you’ll get an ebook copy FREE.

The last year and a half has been a journey! The last time you heard from me, I was beginning to write poetry. I was also beginning to get noticeably sick. I really dove into writing as a way to kind of process life with my illnesss (I am bedridden with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, likely as a result of a covid infection — I am one of the many, many disabled by LongCovid). Most of my writing looks at life, faith, and parenting through the lens of disability/chronic illness, and this first book is a small taste of what is to come.

I probably won’t be using this space often (computer time is challenging for me), so I’d love it if you would subscribe to my newsletter. I plan to share (monthly-ish) updates on my writing/publishing, some bits on what I’m reading, and shoutouts/highlights of literary magazines and other writers I love and think you should know about.

First newsletter issue will be sometime in December and include a link to a free copy of Lift the Mask! While you’re here, stop over at my Writing Portfolio page and see some work I’ve had published over the past year. It’s incomplete, but I’m working on it.