9th Dec...Typewriter Poetry
It's true! "The Yellow Book" is finally here!
Oh, my gosh…so much relief that my third collection of poetry to my printer…Poems For My People: Community, Volume 3 has ACTUALLY been published.
It’s been an unexpectedly long-time coming…I thought it’d be out a whole year ago in September 2023. As one of my writing friends often reminds me, writing takes as long as it needs.
But, I’m pleased to say that it’s finally here (!!!) and available to purchase online via other online bookshops as ebook and hardcover on November 30, 2024.
I cried when I officially ordered my own personal copies. I was so proud and excited.
If you want a signed-by-me-the-author copy, buy my book here. :) Otherwise it’s available via online bookshops—or, ask your local independent bookstore to order you a copy!
Here's a photo with my personal typewriter poet view whenever I’ve been out poetry busking at Yellow Bike Coffee in Duluth, Minnesota.
Visit them at:
4411 Venture Avenue (near the airport)
Duluth, MN 55811
U.S.A.
or
600 E Superior Street (in Fitger’s)
Duluth, MN 55802
U.S.A.
Find out more about Yellow Bike Coffee joy on their website here:
https://www.yellowbike.coffee/.
Oh, and if you weren’t sure why I call it “the yellow book” it’s because it’s the third in a series of Poems For My People. I’m creating a rainbow of a collection—because I thought it’d look amazing on your bookshelf!
As a celebration to share with you that Poems For My People: Community, Volume 3 is (wahoo!!) finally out…here’s a mini-essay, a “Coffee Chat…” Just pretend like we’re sat in a coffee shop together (like Yellow Bike in Duluth) and we’re having a chat about why I’m sat there with my typewriter.
Here’s… “Feeling Inspired.” Enjoy!
What inspires you?
Pretty much everything! One reason I love writing poems with my typewriter in public places and coffee shops is because I find people fascinating and I have a really good habit of eavesdropping. Yeah…I only pay attention if I find the “characters” near me to be interesting who I might be able to include in some work of fiction–and I haven’t, as of the publication of this yellow book actually had anything fiction published other than more than half my life ago in high school for our literary arts magazine. Someday, maybe.
But in fiction, I find it inspiring to imagine how everyone I encounter is living just as full of a life as I’m living–we aren’t just shapes passing each other! And behind each door people are living, dreaming, struggling, thriving, hoping, despairing…and it just lights me up when I imagine the 3D fullness of each human. And, since we’re talking about poetry–it’s an honor, a privilege, to be able to ask questions of the poem’s recipient to be able to create in a collaborative way like this–like this holding space of typewriter poetry busking.
Yellow Bike Coffee has been hosting me as Typewriter-Poet-in-Residence for two years and has made space for the writing of poems in each of the red, orange, and now, yellow collections, Poems For My People: Community, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. I’ve written and shared a couple hundred poems with Duluthians and visitors alike who have strode through Yellow Bike Coffee’s doors.
The impression Shannon, her team, and their beans have left on me is deeper than a coffee stain, more beautiful than a perfectly poured cup of latte art, more invigorating than a shot of pure espresso…and, it is so much fun!
I hope and pray you experience some of this in the pages of Poems For My People: Community, Volume 3. It truly is a special collection.
With lots of poetry love,
I wish you very happy reading!
Molly
P.S. Here I am posing with an autumnal beverage and my trusty typewriter in Yellow Bike Coffee. Stay tuned for more creativity avalanche and poetry joy.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!