How I Got Here, by Eve Lyons

Poetry, chapbook, 52 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

During the Trump years I found it hard to write poetry about the unprecedented time we were living through, so I embarked on a project to write about the other historical events of my lifetime.

Eve Lyons is a poet and fiction writer living in the Boston area. Her work has appeared in Lilith, Literary Mama, Hip Mama, PIF, Welter, Prospectus, Poetry Quarterly, Barbaric Yawp, Word Riot, Dead Mule of Southern Literature, as well as other magazines and several anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World, was published in May of 2020 by WordTech Communications. She works as an expressive arts therapist at an outpatient mental health clinic and teaches at Lesley University.