Hi! Today we are taking a look at one of MY poems. Whoa! In April of 2020, I wrote a poem called “tornadoland” as part of my National Poetry Writing Month project. Last year, it was published in the anthology Hell Is Real, which you can download for free or buy in print.
Here’s the first draft of the poem, untouched since the spring of 2020:
And here’s the “final” version, as it appeared in the anthology:
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