The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Here are some poems. I’ve been writing every day, but not everything is worth sharing so I just picked a few recent ones that I liked.

I started a self portrait project where I do a self portrait a day until Fall. Not sure where this is taking me yet, but I’m loosening up by drawing from life (a mirror) and getting away from photographs. Below are my attempts so far for the past 5 days.

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

I feel hope. No matter how devastated I am or how much I fall down, I always have hope for tomorrow. It drives me to keep trying even when things seem futile. Sometimes it takes a while for that hope to kindle action, but without fail I always find a way to pick myself up from a failure and try again.

So I’ve had some good news come my way. My poems were published twice and a third and fourth publisher (SHINE Quarterly and Setu Monthly) is going to feature them in September. I’ve linked below the two sites that have already published:

https://the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-starbeck-orion-summer-4d8

https://www.ultramarinereview.com/post/pills

I have a phone interview on Tuesday or Wednesday (haven’t heard back on the day yet). It’s with a company I interviewed with for another job (I didn’t get that one) so I know how their initial phone interviews go. I’m familiar, which is good. I think I can make it past the screening and get a formal interview (fingers crossed). Next time I am going to schedule all interviews for the morning, never do two on the same day, and I am going to research the role thoroughly so I don’t get caught out on questions about having read about the company beforehand.