Not Built for the Algorithm

I want to talk about something for a second.

There are a lot of poets out here. A lot of faith-based creatives. A lot of people making beautiful things and sharing them with the world — and that's a good thing. Like for real.

But I'd be doing you a disservice if I pretended my work was built the same way as everybody else's. It's not. And I think you deserve to know why.

Some write for the algorithm, the trend, the moment. I write when God's word sparks something in me I can't ignore. If it doesn't come from a real place, it doesn't come from me at all.

Some build for a broad audience — anybody, everybody, whoever clicks. I write for women who've had enough of the devil's nonsense and need to be reminded that their problems are not a match for the big God they serve. That's a specific woman. She knows who she is. I write for her.

Some type it out, format it up, ship it. I write everything by hand. Every word in every poetry book, every devotional — it starts on paper, from experience, from life, from the Word. You can feel the difference when something was actually lived before it was written.

I started writing in a church pew.

I used to wonder if anybody even wanted to read what I put on paper.

It be like that sometimes.

But I kept going anyway. And somewhere along the way, the work started finding the right people — people like you.

If you've been looking for poetry that actually meets you where you are, I'd love for you to explore the latest collection.