Artwork
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Caroline’s Lighthouse
My first new project is the rewrite of a book-length story, Caroline’s Lighthouse, which I first wrote in early 1997 when I was 15. By “wrote” I mean the first draft was written in pencil on notebook paper. It’s a teenage love story with tragedy and a ghost story happening in the background. I drew the illustration on the book cover in 1998 when I was 16 or 17. I am now working on the final rounds of edits and plan to go the Indie publishing route. My goal is to have the book available in made-to-order trade paperback and Kindle editions by the end of 2016. -Brandi Easterling Collins
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There
I wrote this for an Expanded Imagist Poetry assignment for my Creative Writing class my sophomore year in college. I turned in the pencil drawing for a Drawing Studio class in 2000. “There” 8-30-00 On cold concrete steps long abandoned like the building behind, she told him her biggest fear, which he helped cease, and made her smile. She wondered how many had fallen in love there, with the rough, red bricks scraping their backs. He thought about how many in the past had sex there, (as they did) with the sharp, rusty guard rails in the way. He drew lines in the clay to make her think while they discussed his…
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You-(Kurt Cobain)
I was almost 13 and had just discovered Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s music when he died in 1994. My favorite Nirvana song is “Pennyroyal Tea.” I wrote the poem as part of an English assignment and drew the picture for Art. “You” 4-8-97 We put all our trust in you, not knowing what you’d been through. You gave us strength to face our peers, and looked right through us in the mirrors. We hear your lyrics every day, and know you’ll never fade away. You made me want to scream from towers: “I’m here now, embrace my powers!” We all cried out in pain: “Why’d you leave us Kurt Cobain?” Your…
