HOST

Wisconsin Poetry Series Finalist, Selected by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Sean Singer
Forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press, Spring 2024

Praise for HOST

Part elegy to the Anthropocene, part case study of internet-era loneliness, the metaphorical relationships woven throughout HOST’s poignant, timely, and necessary poems are many: mother host to son, woman host to patriarchy, flower host to human pleasure, earth host to people’s waste. Among these layered threats to the body and the planet, there’s a plea for repair, for reclamation, as one speaker asks, “did you hear me / agree to be an island?” Here we have a poet at the height of her craft, skillfully rendering the essential dispatches we all need to hear.
– Trey Moody, author of Autoblivion

Poems from HOST

Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day–“Holocene Sonnet”
Barrelhouse–“Synthetic Love”
Gulf Coast–“Anxiety” Gulf Coast Poetry Prize winner, selected by Natalie Diaz
The Missouri Review–“Oubliette”
Ocean State Review–“ACOA Questionnaire”
Terrain–“Letter to the Aftermath”
Verse Daily–“Why to Save the World”
Waxwing–“To the Friend Who Sent Me Goodwill Forks as a Gift”