Another Substack to Love!
Please allow me to introduce my spouse the incredibly lovable Brian Spears <3
I’ve been writing Human in the Post-Human world for about three years now, and I have found this a Great Place to Write.
I know some people create Substacks to make money, but I already have a job: what I want to do is write and connect with readers who care.
My One True Love Brian Spears is also a Writer. He’s a magnificent writer, actually, who has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, where he once appeared on CSPAN’s Book TV.
And more recently one of his poems was made into a really fantastic (and very funny) short film by Irish filmmaker Ged Murray, as part of the MotionPoems project!
He’s also been the Poetry Editor at The Rumpus since it was started all those many years ago, working with Cheryl Strayed and Roxane Gay in the early days, and still at it today.
But life is hard, not least of all for my Beloved Brian, and the events of the past several years have impacted his confidence, and really his whole sense of whether or not he is a writer.
If I can be vague: the killer blow came in the form of a forced dismissal from a falsely-friendly person who made me deliver the news thus further rolling professional trauma into our personal lives.
Since then I have been reminding Brian, you are wonderful, you are beautiful, you are a poet! You have things to say and people want to hear! But when you’re smacked down hard by the vicissitudes of life, those things are hard to believe.
For the past few years I’ve been telling him, “you should start a Substack newsletter,” because I’d been really happy with the ability to share long-form ideas with an audience who enjoys the deeper explorations.
The past few months I’ve really upped the pressure, and my Glorious Love finally decided to go for it. He started a Substack titled Another Poem to Love and his first essay is shatteringly good.
Please read it, and subscribe — I subscribed to this guy almost 23 years ago, and I never regretted a day!