I started a newsletter in February 2024 called Keep Hoping Machine Running. It’s very loosely about digging small, shining bits of hope from the dirt of this largely awful world, offering reasons and ways to keep going when it feels like you’re being ground down bit by bit as time goes on, but when I say loosely, I mean it. It’s become more of a dumping ground for me to share media I love, write rambling personal essays about whatever has been on my mind in a given week, and try to convince my readers that my favorite poems should be their favorite poems. It’s a mess, but hopefully a good mess, as I am and as is everything I create.
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