Rachel Dupont uses beautiful journals for shitty first drafts

Circling Issue #4, featuring Rachel Dupont

Rachel Dupont writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, embracing themes such as feminism, religion and mental health, embodiment, sexuality, and familial relationships. She is a professional copywriter and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Indiana University. Rachel lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband and her rescue cat.

Discussing practical objects in a house or apartment is one way to interpret our questions about cultivating a home in which art can survive. But in our conversation with Rachel, a deep attention to the home of the body emerged. From the supported posture elicited by a favorite chair to a daily yoga practice or the particular way certain journals fall open in your hands, she considered the sensory realities of making a creative life possible.

How does it taste and feel? How does it move? To what shapes does it conform?