I’ve been tagged by my friend and fellow poet, Natalie Giarratano, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge. For day #5 I’m selecting my poem “Song,” which was published here by Rust + Moth in their Autumn 2013 issue.

I’ve been tagged by my friend and fellow poet, Natalie Giarratano, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge. For day #4 I’m selecting my poem “Vigil,” which was published here by Grey Sparrow in their Winter 2014 issue.

I’ve been tagged by my friend and fellow poet, Natalie Giarratano, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge. For day #3 I’m selecting my poem “The Ghosts of Dead Husbands,” which was published here by Gravel in December 2014.

I’ve been tagged by my friend and fellow poet, Natalie Giarratano, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge. For day #2 I’m selecting my poem “The Pond,” which was published here by The Meadow.

To date, this is the longest poem I’ve written and I started writing it when I was an undergrad at Allegheny College. It went through countless re-writes. For along time I only had the first section written and then added the other two sections over a series of workshops and revisions.

I’ve been tagged by my friend and fellow poet, Natalie Giarratano, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge. For day #1 I’m selecting my poem “A Trip to the Indiana State Museum,” which was published here by Heron Tree in November 2014.

I wrote this poem on a trip to Indianapolis where I was visiting my now husband. I actually wrote the first draft while waiting for him to finish working the night after we visited the museum. Here are some pictures of some early drafts I wrote in my journal: