An Introduction

 

Hey y’all! My name is Justin Rossberg at the time of writing this I am 27 years old and living in Long Beach, CA. I’m working as a Bartender at a brewery, this past summer I was a lifeguard at a waterpark, and now I’m trying to be a substitute teacher. I am an avid line dancer at Stud Country, the queer church of country line dancing, and I like to write poetry.

I truly don’t have any idea what I want to do with this platform besides sharing my poetry. Over the last couple years, I’ve started to write more and more poetry. Despite all the things happening in my life (and its been a rough time as of late) I continue to find so much joy in communicating my experience in this form. I write about my experience as a gay man, my relationship to spirituality and how it relates to the fact that I was raised in a Christian household, the revelations I have in therapy, as well as the everyday mundane. My goal with writing is to find the beauty in life, to just develop a better sense of self, to be creative, and relish in this life I have.

I wanted to challenge myself to start sharing my work and I like this platform so here I am. This place will mostly be poetry but I may also include updates on my life as a way for my friends and family to know whats going on because let’s be honest, I’m not great at telling anybody about anything. This space is just that, a space. A place for me to write whatever I want and put it out into the world. Eventually I want to publish some work but for now some old stuff and most of my new stuff will live here.

So if you’re interested in this journey, stay awhile. I’m excited to see where this takes us.

**a note about the picture above: this was taken by my best friend, Sierra, at the Getty Villa!