PopPoetry Postscript: January 13, 2023

An OnlyFans poetry project, a poem about children that could have been, and a poetry legend-in-the-making interviews a country legend-in-the-making.

Is anyone else’s creative mind on overdrive? Is it a January thing? An infinite possibility thing? I have more ideas than I could possibly know what to do with. Now the challenge is to find the time—or rather, make the time—and space to allow them to grow.

It’s an immense privilege to have even a moment to be creative, especially since the birth of my daughter. I think a lot about the interview with Regina Spektor that I included in my post about her creative life and her song “Après Moi,” which contains lines from a poem by Boris Pasternak. In the interview, she talks about