I’m so thrilled to share the cover of the first akinoga press book for 2025, my new chapbook A Violet Stretch of Sky! Thank you so much to this wonderful press for the care with which they handled this collection.

Preorders are now available at a discount. :) A Violet Stretch of Sky will officially be released on Saturday, May 31st.

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A Violet Stretch of Sky is inspired by poet Meggie Royer’s fascination with folklore, mythology, and the experience of processing traumatic memories. In this collection, Royer imagines beloved artistic and literary figures such as Virginia Woolf and van Gogh in conversation with women of myth, examines the complex nature of relationships marred by love and violence, and attempts to reconcile her teenage self with her adult self.

i am a little tipsy and a little sappy but i’ve noticed over the years i have a very large number of trans and nonbinary readers/followers and i just want to say i really love you all and if there’s ever anything i can do from my end/platform to support you or boost your writing or anything such, please let me know, esp as we see an alarming, catastrophic surge in anti-2slgbtqia+ policies, rhetoric, and violence in the US <3

What a wild decade it’s been. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has read and loved this poem.

your girl is now a two-time author of published scholarly research articles!!!!