1,000: A PopPoetry Milestone
Thank you for helping me create a meaningful audience for poetry, pop culture, and the creative life!
Something very cool happened since I’ve been in Europe for work, and I wanted to take a moment this week to celebrate:
PopPoetry now has more than 1,000 subscribers!
This is such an honor! I’m thrilled to be creating a meaningful audience for this cool and unusual topic that dovetails with so many other aspects of art, culture, and humanity. And I quite literally couldn’t have done it without you!
Since my early 20s, I’ve sporadically tried to keep online blogs going, but I was never successful with longer-term projects. PopPoetry turns four years old this year! Can you believe it? Posting weekly for this long is something I’m really proud of, but I’m also proud of the community I’ve found, the attention I’ve been able to get for poetry and poets on screen, in songs, through video games, and more: these are great honors.
But most of all, I’m grateful that more than 1,000 readers like you are interested in my writing and that so many of you read my words every week.
As a thank you, paid subscriptions are 10% off if you sign up before April 1! If you’d like to support my work further, I’d be very grateful to have you upgrade. Life on earth is expensive, and it’s hard to justify an expenditure like this one, I know. But every paid subscriber is helping to bolster my writing life, my family, and the future of this Substack. If you’re ready to join, click the button below.
Next week, I’ll be back with a post on the films of famed French poet Jacques Prévert in honor of all the time I’ve spent abroad recently. For now, I’m still here in La Belle France sending you my best wishes from afar.
Being here and soaking in the landscapes and food and art in between my work duties has been wonderful, but I’m struck again by the obvious: it’s about people. Everything is. It’s nice to have a meal in a French restaurant but the experience feels hollow when my husband and daughter are at home. It’s not the same, but it’s much better around the table of my French colleagues, better when our laughter and happiness flood the room like so much good wine.
You can travel the world and read books and write poetry, but unless you have someone to share it with, these gifts risk dying on the vine. So thank you again, friends, for giving this poet someone to write toward in this strange online world.
Thank you, everyone, for it all—
Caitlin