It's like if WordPress and Mailchimp had a baby

I'm going to explain this Substack thing, why I'm here more and on Facebook less, and how you can get the most out of this newsletter (and my other one, too!)

Nine months ago I left MailChimp and stopped blogging on WordPress—which freed me up to begin my first Substack publication, This Dream is a Poem. Now I have two!

How we got here—a brief history

My first publication had a print run of one and an enthusiastic audience of two: My parents.

I was 10 years old and I’d collected the poems I’d written in school …