I started submitting my poems and
stories to small press journals beginning in the summer and autumn of 2010,
after a long break from submitting. Not long into this new wave of work and
publishing, I came across a call for submissions to a small new journal called
Electric Windmill. Brian Le Lay, the
editor in chief, accepted two of my poems—I was especially pleased that they
accepted a poem I called “Lithium Tremor Blues” to appear in the magazine, so I
kept submitting to them and my work appeared in a number of subsequent
issues. Around this time Brian e-mailed
me and told me that he and Jess Dykstra (the other brain behind Electric
Windmill Press) wanted to start a chapbook series. Why not start with one by me? I set to work on collecting the poems, most of
which were written from summer 2011 to winter 2012. I chose to focus mostly on poems that cast light
on my struggles throughout my twenties. Luckily
for me, they loved what I sent them and the process of publishing this little book
began. I am forever indebted to Brian and
Jess for their hard work on it. From the
cover design to blurbs on the back, it’s a beauty. I hope readers enjoy it and I look forward to shouting from the mountain tops about it as long as there are copies to print.
To order a copy of All the Rage:
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