Raising Money For My First Book

Raising Money For My First Book:  The Middle


This campaign begins on my thirty-second birthday.
It is the gift that I am giving myself: asking the great wide cyberverse to help me to realize a dream that I've had for a long time....

I have been writing down thoughts for as long as I can remember: little ideas here & there, calling them 'things' until I became comfortable calling them 'poems'. They were seldom seen by anyone other than myself, but I have reached a point where it feels important (to me) to share them.  This is where many notebooks full of scribbled-out words, lines, & pages has brought me to. 


This is for those
who leave themselves in their Work
This is for readers, watchers, sitting, walkers
This is for the guy on the back of the bus
This is for all the friends I've ever had
This is for the voices who called me
along the path that led me here
This is for all the times I struggled
over a line


'Yet I am one of those who from nothing but man’s way of thought and one of his dialects and what has happened to me
Have made poetry'

- George Oppen, Of Being Numerous (9)

This is for whoever wants it.

-Daniel J Pilger