Echoes of Appalachia

My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It’s actually done and finally published over 270 pages.

Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn’t stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it’s finished, and I’m still standing, and the book is real.

I called it Beautiful and Brutal Things because that’s what life is. Both at once, all the time. The good stuff and the hard stuff, happening side by side. All of it went into these poems.

There’s grief in here. Love. Everyday stuff that maybe doesn’t seem like much until you write it down and realize it was everything. Some poems that might lift you up when you need it. I just wrote what I needed to write, about life and what was true.

I don’t really know what else to say except thank you. Thank you for reading poetry, for caring about it, for giving a damn about words on a page. That means more than you know to me.

I hope you find something in these poems that feels like words you want to say or do say.

Click on the link below to read a sample. Or even get your own copy. Thanks again for all of the support.

-Tim