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Poet Bio: Gabrielle Brant Freeman's poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Cider Press Review, Hobart, Melancholy Hyperbole, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in October of 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College. Read her poems and more at http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/.

Author Statement: I am so happy to return to the 30/30 Project this month. It has been exactly a year since I last participated, and what a year it has been! I published three of my 30/30 poems in journals, and five of them are included in my first book, When She Was Bad, which just came out from Press 53. Check it out!

Last year, I used a list of questions designed to make two people fall in love as daily prompts, and I opened them up to input on social media. This year, I am going to attempt an adult alphabet book based around the term "adulting." I love the interaction of posting prompts on social media, and I love the fun I have trying to put poems together using ideas and images from the responses. So, here I go again! This time around, I am adding a new challenge for myself. In addition to writing a poem each day, I will try (!!) to illustrate each day's poem.

I hope to end up with a fun group of poems and sketches, and I hope to bring readers in to the joy I experience when creating poetry. I hope you'll join me, and I hope you'll consider donating to Tupelo Press.

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!