Hi, all — hope you’re doing well.

2025 has been A Year, and while I’ve had poems coming out on occasion, I haven’t had news that’s seemed like it’s warranted an entire email. (I’m not certain if it’s my self-promotional instincts that are failing, or just a certain sense of... gestures vaguely at the world.)

Either way, I come bearing news.

The fine folks at Bottlecap Press have published my poetry chapbook, While Changing Lanes, and it’s now available in digital and physical formats!

The chapbook is nineteen (19) poems and stands at about forty (40) pages — I think that averages out to 0.50 USD per poem, for the physical copy. You can’t lose!

The poems themselves are a batch of “road poetry,” built from images I started collecting on travels. Thematically, it’s my commute to work, but a couple poems predate my change in office, and the collection was actually inspired while driving an hour to an airport for a business trip. Some fall squarely in the category of ‘speculative poetry,’ and others are less speculative, more outright horrifying. (I did try to capture a few more beautiful moments in there, too. Nothing is all doom and gloom — even with the year we’ve had.)

Normally I’d say “read and review” with a sense of ironic detachment, but... this is the first time my unpronounceable name has been on the front cover or something, and it brings joy to my latter Gen-X heart, so: please do read and review. And if you can’t, I hope you at least read, and I hope you enjoy!

Now that I’ve remembered this mailing thing is here, I’ll try to use it more often. (Let’s shoot for getting up to three times a year!)

All my best,

Brian.