Brandon — three looks for the new home of your writing. Each uses your real poems (pulled straight from the current site, with every stanza and line break intact), your bio, and all your collections: Poetry, Prayers, Short Tales, Children's Stories, the Transformation Blog, and Transcending Rigidity. Browse each, then tell Austin which feels right. Mixing is welcome.
Direction 2AA letterpress-print feel — ivory paper, classic Garamond type, poems centered like a fine broadside. Quiet, timeless, literary. The site disappears and the words carry everything.
Direction 2BDark and atmospheric — poems glowing moon-pale on deep night blue, with an ember-gold accent. Evokes the ravens, fields, and October trees in your work. Contemplative and striking.
Direction 2CA modern literary-magazine layout — clean grid, warm persimmon accent, genre browsing up front. Puts the breadth of your work (poems, prayers, tales, essays) on display and makes it easy to explore.
Whichever direction you choose, the new site will include an easy publishing dashboard — you write and hit publish, no Squarespace needed. All 390+ existing posts and pages come along, with their original dates, on a faster, simpler site.