Acknowledgements and Gratitude

An earlier version of "Sometimes" was first published in Now We Are Here: Hybrid Poetics Anthology: Volume 2.

Gratitude to EMU Professor Christine Hume for encouraging me to finish this project as part of my Master's Writing Project.

Gratitude to the Hybrid Poetics writing community, where early drafts of this poem were worked on during our time together.

This poem form, which I call a maze poem, is adapted from the form used in Franny Choi's poem "Never Here" from Choi's collection, Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Gratitude to Franny Choi.

Early drafts of the interactive parts of this poem were worked on using Twine. Gratitude to EMU Professor Matt Kirkpatrick for introducing me to Twine.

Gratitude to the Game Club at DIA Design Guild for helping me explore different interactive narrative tools and encouraging me to build things.

Gratitude to Jacqueline Suskin and her typewriter poems, which remind me it's important to get the work out.

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