Last month, in the hectic holiday fun of planning and celebrating Christmas and my second wedding anniversary, as well as a fun trip, I published my 9th poetry book.
Yes, my 9th!
I’m excited about this book. I feel like I stretched myself a bit as a writer. I went outside my box a little bit. I wrote about all the things on my heart. I wrote with humility. I wrote with adoration. I wrote with sadness.
I always try to write in ways where other people can relate. It’s never too specific to me. That my words might help someone else tell their own story. And I feel like my last few books I’ve really gotten better at this.
My husband is part of the Prison Fellowship Academy where he does discipleship in prison with the men there. He has taken in some of my poetry and the men have read it and have enjoyed it enough that they’ve asked him to get my books into the library within the prison.
It’s wild to me that these men in these very hard circumstances, with very hard backgrounds, who know things about life I cannot imagine, can relate to my words and they find them hopeful!
That’s the beauty of poetry.
Anna Farley 