I am excited to share that my poem “The Process” is featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing.

This year Snapdragon Journal has been focusing on grief, including how it shapes us and how we move through it. The fall issue centers on bargaining, the third phase of the stages of grief as outlined by ‎Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

I wrote “The Process” last year, when composer and friend Samora Pinderhughes invited folks to create art in response to his then newly-released song, “Process,” a powerful meditation on grief, loss, and the grace by which we recover. (By the way, if you haven’t heard this song, then you must go watch/listen here!)

My poem expresses what I’ve learned about grief – that it is a necessary process, one that you avoid at your own peril, and a process that if yielded to, can make you richer in heart and soul than you were before.

I couldn’t be more excited for my first published poem to be featured in Snapdragon Journal, a publication that is all about art and healing, two of my greatest passions.

Thank you to Jacinta V. White, Snapdragon Journal‘s founder and publishing editor, and poetry editor Petra Salazar for including my work among all of the moving, beautiful poems in this issue.

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Update: You can hear me recite “The Process” here on my podcast, “The Sound of Solace.”