Killing and Composting

A few weeks ago I decided to kill one of my projects.

I’ve been running a little podcast called I Will Read To You since September of 2021, and in the past little-over-a-year I’ve recorded and published nearly 200 poems and essays (but mostly poems) from the public domain.

Killing a project, I’ve learned, can be almost as difficult as starting one.

It’s not easy to tell, for instance, if you’re getting rid of it for good, justifiable reasons or due to a failure of fortitude and resilien...