dancing girl press, 2021

Praise for Once a Diva:

“The chapbook, Once a Diva…is totally unlike, but certainly foreshadowed, An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe. In the poem, “The Poet Diva,” the narrator explores her writing self and displays the sort of confidence that many of us lack. Or maybe we are naïvely confident until we don’t succeed, and then lose that stance in the throes of rejections. In any event, in this poem, we see the emergence of the butterfly from the cocoon:

The Diva does nothing half way:

soon she’s published a poem,
a dozen, then surprise, a book.

The Diva’s not surprised.
She expected as much.

That is one possible view of the diva’s story. She expected as much. But “Me Too Diva” presages Seaborn’s stubborn urge to show the underbelly of the diva, here anonymous, but in a waft of Marilyn to come…” -Cultural Daily

“I just finished reading Once a Diva by Heidi Seaborn for the third time and am still laughing out loud. These poems are funny, witty, naughty, irresistible and just plain fun. Oh...and extremely well-written! Hard to imagine anyone could begin the first one and not, immediately, read all the way through to the end—they are that engaging and enticing. Makaela Dokken's sassy illustrations punctuate the satire with an extra chuckle. Brava to the Diva!” ~Lillo Way, Author, Lend Me Your Wings

Illustrations by Makaela Dokken