READy to Sow : Fall Poems for a Spring Audience

The poems PhOEbeTRY shares with you here, are as diverse as the things she draws inspiration from: a loved one, art, a dream, a TV show, a conversation, or even a post on social media. "Anything that sparks my interest, jotted down in a few words or sentences, is a poem waiting to happen, really. Often these little 'seeds', as I like to call them, hold a new insight or even an invaluable lesson for me. So, I store them in a safe place until, each in its own time, I take 'em out to grow into a poem." Though written over the course of one month, most of these poems originate from seeds she's collected over the last six years.

About the writing and publishing process PhOEbeTRY says: "Writing 21 poems in such a short period of time forced me to focus more on my own process than on other people's methods or opinions about me and my work. I'm a work in process, but I can honestly say it feels so good to let go of the idea of 'perfection', and to just go for it regardless."

'READy to Sow' is about finding your place in the world, making sense of things both around and inside you, falling down, overcoming obstacles and... always getting back up.