This is part one of a 6-part series investigating the state of modern poetry and its creative and commercial possibilities. Let’s start with a story that starts ends up in a rabbit hole. I am a writer but not necessarily a poet, even though technically I have this past week just launched my first collection of poems and I have made at least one sale, which, I guess, means I’m technically a poet. Hurray? Another title I can bestow upon myself in the never-ending struggle of a girl-now-woman wh...

This is part one of a 6-part series investigating the state of modern poetry and its creative and commercial possibilities. Let’s start with a story that starts ends up in a rabbit hole. I am a writer but not necessarily a poet, even though technically I have this past week just launched my first collection of poems and I have made at least one sale, which, I guess, means I’m technically a poet. Hurray? Another title I can bestow upon myself in the never-ending struggle of a girl-now-woman wh...