The Books are Coming, The Books are Coming...

...I'm so excited! Just got word that my books are on their way. Unfinished and other poems is a reality and on Tuesday I'll get my mitts on them when the inventory is delivered to me.

This book has been 4 years in the making, though a reality for about 6 months in the form of a dream I could make come true, through my wonderful publisher, Sheila Dierks at Woven Word Press, Boulder, CO.

The book consists of 75 poems...small stories that celebrate the ordinary.
Each poem stands alone, a vignette from life.

Someone asked me where I get ideas for poems...and, really, they come from many different places. They come to me when I am reading, driving around...just observing the world. Often a set of words will come to me - the title of a poem or a phrase that I have to write down so I won't forget it.

Writing makes me so happy. I love everything about the process. The ideas, capturing a first draft...even the editing is fun for me. I'm very lucky to have found my calling...even at 54+ years of age.

If anyone out there is reading this, please let me know about your writing process. Or about whatever calling is yours and makes you happy.

I leave you, cheerfully anticipating the arrival of my book...

Anni Macht Gibson