Ember Babiak

As someone who has long identified myself as a butterfly/hummingbird gardener, back when I was publishing poems and getting ready to publish my book, it tickled me that poets exposing their work to the world for the first time were considered to be “emerging,” since that’s what we call it when butterflies exit their chrysalis. What do we call it when a poet, after a self-imposed exile of more than a decade, decides to re-enter… Read more: Re-emergence