Our next Letter in the Mail comes from poet Eugenia Leigh! Eugenia shares her theory on the “Jesus Year,” or the year a person turns thirty-three, and the work it takes to become the “truer” version of yourself.
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Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books), winner of the 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry and finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets.