“Good Universe Next Door” is my poetry blog. Launched in 2012, it features writing prompts, book reviews, lists of poems (by style), resources and musings about the creative life, which I thankfully find impossible to separate from regular life.
In its early years, it earned very modest page views: between 2,000 and 5,000 annually. However, Good Universe Next Door realized exponential growth from 2021 to 2024 with yearly page view totals of 10.6K, 16.2K, 25.7K and 47.5K. Page views continue to climb this year -- reaching over 52K page views in the first six months of 2025 (an average of 240 each day).
Since January 2023, more than 86K unique users have visited the site.
I’ve been blogging since the mid-2000s, cutting my teeth as a poet and literary citizen at a time that preceded social media. Back then, poets and writers connected via comments on blogs and collaborated on generative projects that were also blog-based.
At the core of this blogging journey is my whole heart — what I love about the writer’s life and where I struggle creatively and personally. At every juncture, publishing Good Universe Next Door has gone hand-in-hand with my understanding of and connection to my work and the work of other writers.
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