Black tourmaline and Holographic: poems (zine)

This is a professionally-printed zine version of Black tourmaline and Holographic, which was originally a handmade booklet. It includes sixteen poems that were originally printed in 2019, then revised in 2021.

Structurally inspired by split records featuring music from two artists or bands, this collection has a Side A (Black tourmaline) and a Side B (Holographic). The eight poems that make up Black tourmaline were written between 2014-16, when I took my first teaching job in Oxford, Ohio, falling in love with a career I thought I'd lost interest in, watching how the other parts of my identity began to morph and change post-college. I wrote the eight poems that make up Holographic between 2018-19, living in Bloomington, Indiana, still teaching, but feeling transitional in much of my life, learning how to be comfortable in solitude, and spending lots of evenings in the IU Cinema discovering film history. As a whole, this collection is about teaching, selves, homes, dreams (literally more than figuratively), and anxieties.