i honestly quite enjoyed the last time i wrote a little behind-the-scenes “postface” on this blog. i honestly might continue to do this with certain poems and projects if i have something to say, provided it doesn’t give too much away.
in this case, i wanted to talk about a mistake i made. a few days ago, i released a new poetry project called “an EP about losing friends.” it featured a few poems i’ve had waiting in the wings for months, and it featured things i had really wanted to say for a long time. and while these poems don’t tend to get many views (which isn’t necessarily my goal with them), i found that this project actually received a few more views than usual. thank you! i’m glad to see others checking it out, and it’s nice to hear that it’s resonating.
that said, after the initial release, i made an error that i’ve never made before.
while creating the cover art for the project, the picture i had used for the back cover was one i had already used as the back cover for my last poetry album, “silenced.” for the sake of reference, this was the original back cover for this new EP:
and this was the back cover of my last album:
so yes, it totally slipped through the cracks that i re-used a picture for an album cover. this was a total accident that i did not expect, but if you’re curious about how it happened, i’d like to explain:
whenever i take a picture for a poetry album cover that doesn’t feature my face (such as a wall, a street, or a tree), i tend to delete it once the album cover is made. after all, i would no longer have any use in my phone for a picture of the floor, would i?
however, i somehow must’ve forgotten to delete the picture of the floor after releasing “silenced,” thus it stuck around on my phone longer than it should’ve. it hadn’t even dawned on me that i had already used this picture; it was just sitting on my phone, and i thought “sure, why not.”
it also helps that i was creating the cover at approximately 4 in the morning…the wonders of late-night editing.
as a result, i’d like to apologize for that. while i doubt many people caught the error (especially given that very few people read these poems), that’s an error i shouldn’t have made, and i should’ve been more careful about it.
as a result, i did quickly whip up a new back cover for the project, which is pictured at the top of this post. if you'd like to see it again, though, here it is:
i hope this mistake didn't dampen your view of this project. it's a very important one to me, and i'd hate to have soiled it with a preventable mistake. i apologize for my error.
of course, if you’d like to associate the project with the original back cover, by all means go ahead. regardless of your choice, i’m happy you took some time out to check out my poems. they are such a great outlet, after all.
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