i. my name is abby, and my pronouns are she/her & they/them!
ii. my approach to writing is very...chaotic! i write when inspiration hits, and i don't really plan out anything i write, yet it somehow ends up coming together into something beautiful at the end. well, most of the time, anyways.
iii. poems: the mother by gwendolyn brooks, tulips by sylvia plath, i died for beauty but was scarce by emily dickinson, two-headed calf by laura gilpin, landscape with the fall of icarus by william carlos williams, how do i love thee [sonnet 43] by elizabeth barrett browning, many in aftertimes will say of you by christina rossetti, sonnet 130 by shakespeare, i found orpheus levitating by nick carbo, even before your elbow knocked over the glass by emily rosko, remote disjunctions by mónica de la torre, aspiration by tian-ai, "the animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / it is impossible to separate it from what it remembers" by precious okoyomon, born. living. will. die. by camonghne felix, what he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old by duriel e. harris, glossolalia by eugenia leigh, farnaz by farnaz fatemi, lion by tina chang, the dark night (xviii) by may sinclair, [since feeling is first] by e.e. cummings, the city by nathalie handal, good grief by kb brookins, for the bird singing before dawn by kim stafford, [subterranean / dreaming grace roots] by nat raha, not by stephanie cawley
^so sorry for all of that, i've been needing to get these out of my system for a minute now.
iv. i like to explore topics of deep and varied and nuanced emotion, of mental illness and the complications of human interaction, and of what it means to be a lesbian in our world as it stands. my favorite specific imageries are flowers, birds, architecture, human anatomy, war as a metaphor for emotion, and nature as a reflection of humanity.
v. i wrote a lot of [very rudimentary attempts at] poetry, some prose/fiction, and occasionally dabbled in visual art but found i had no real penchant for that, haha.
vi. i have a WHOLE bunch of prose in progress, but most of it is fanfic. i'm trying to regain some passion for my original novels, but so far that's been pretty hit-or-miss. i'm also attempting to write a poem every day, and to be more open to sharing my writing.
vii. poetry, i create anywhere that inspiration strikes me. i've written poems on restaurant napkins, candy wrappers, receipts, even on my own hand if i truly don't have a writing surface nearby. digitally, i keep all my poetry on evernote and transfer it over to google docs if i'm sharing it with someone.
for prose, i mainly write at home in bed, on my couch, or at work. oddly enough, inspiration tends to strike me at work and i always keep a google doc open on the other screen in case i have an idea while i'm working on a call.
viii. i'd KILL to have tea with sappho of lesbos. i'd have to learn greek first, but i'm up for the challenge. or: literally ANY of my online writer friends, they're all so talented.
