I’m honored to be included in the new Still Here series on 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine. Still Here checks in with members of the Utah art community to see what they’ve been up to over the past six months and what their thoughts are for the future.

Here’s an excerpt from my essay:

From a creative standpoint, poetry all but stopped for me at first. Being home constantly without a commute should have meant I’d have more time for reading and creating, but I often found myself without motivation and picking up a book of poems just felt emotionally exhausting. I pushed myself to find online poetry workshops to inspire me to write. I signed up for too many, over committing myself, completed some, and completely ditched a few, sadly some of which were expensive. I have written some poems and continued some projects, probably as many as I would have had I not been wallowing in the pandemic, but those poems and projects felt much more taxing than they normally would have and took more time. I let some things wait, wait some more, and there are still some I haven’t returned to.

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15 Bytes is an online art magazine and features artists and authors living in Utah. It’s published by Artists of Utah, a non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. “The organization was created to serve as a communication nexus for Utah’s visual arts community. We are made up of artists, art professionals and art lovers and exist to bring the same together in an attempt to foster interaction, education and imagination. Our principle tool for doing this is the internet, which serves to bring together members of the visual arts community from across the state. Our website, www.artistsofutah.org, is continually expanding in an attempt to give greater voice to a wider community of individuals and organizations.”

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