Writing in the Borderlands (Free E-book)
Hello friends,
Something different this week: please download Writing in the Borderlands, a free e-book featuring a personal essay exploring my poetic interests and goals.
Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing either my omnibus edition Knit Ink (and Other Poems) or something from my store.)
Alternatively, buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi!
Downloaded and excited to dig in. The 'borderlands' framing in the title already resonates — constrained poetry sits in this fascinating liminal space between pure wordplay (crosswords, anagrams, puzzles) and conventional verse (meter, imagery, emotion). Most people treat those as separate territories.
What I've always admired about your work is how the constraint *is* the meaning. An aelindrome isn't just a technical feat; the reversibility becomes part of what the poem is saying. The math and the lyric aren't in tension — they're the same thing.
Looking forward to seeing how you articulate that in essay form.