That was Fun

Shannon Barber
5 min readJan 14, 2021

Let’s not do that again.

Recently another writer asked me about my now out of print poetry boo Gasoline Heart.

image description: a brightly colored photo of round fuchsia sequins with yellow text that reads: Gasoline Heart Shannon Barber. This is the cover of my poetry book.

First let’s talk about the writing. My poetry book was written mainly while I was waiting for buses on my phone using a notepad app. I have long used writing poems as a way of relaxation or warm up. I did not set out to write a poetry book at all. I wrote a bunch of poems and my editor had previously…

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