I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.