About

My attraction to the comma is that it gets to represent multiple things: a change, a departure, a pause, a break, a shift, a separator of parts in a series. I'm exploring my identities, relationships and questions through the the comma symbol.

About Toni Giacoletto

I’m a lyrical essayist based in what we call Minneapolis, MN, a few miles from the Mississippi River. This great artery has been my lifeline since birth, born and raised near St. Louis. The experience of growing up in the center of the United States meant an early lesson in the limbo of identities. When we visited my family further south, we were Northerners. When I moved to Minnesota, I was from the south. And as I’ve aged, I’ve come to appreciate the melded elements of both that exist within that sticky hot, complicated city, and leveraged it as I've come to understand my own complicated self and existence.

If you have an idea for comma symbol, reach out at giacolettotoni@gmail.com.