Poetry is powerful
Poetry is witchcraft

My passion for writing was ignited in high school when I started an underground newspaper with a group of friends. The ACLU honored us with their Courageous Advocate Award for continuing to publish the paper despite the administration's threats to expel us. Many, many years later, I am a poet, a homeschooling mama of two, and co-founder of Canary Acres Animal Sanctuary. I believe that words, spoken or written, can be magic spells that alter someone's existence, for just a minute or for much longer. I believe poetry is powerful...poetry is witchcraft.

I also believe that spilling your guts can be transformative, that writing can heal. I believe in what I call Renegade Poetry, which is exactly what it sounds like: writing that breaks the rules, bucks the norms, and tells wild and dirty truths. I believe the world has enough poems praising the branches swaying in the wind, the stillness of winter, the breath-taking sunrise. What the world needs is your secrets. Your ghosts. So, how about it? You show me your scars, and I'll show you mine.

"Darling, you feel heavy because you're too full of truth. Open your mouth more. Let the truth exist somewhere other than inside your body."
​-Della Hicks-Wilson