Chapbooks

TIMELESS TIPS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE, Quarterly West, May 2021

2020 Quarterly West Chapbook Prize

“Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage blends facts, anicient forms, research and a wonderfully poetic take on immersion journalism to yield a piece of dazzling hybridity. Told with incredible command of the many voices it employs, this is a surprising and deeply satisfying meditation on how art can intersect with revolution.”

– Elena Passarello, Contest judge and author of Animals Strike Curious Poses

“Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage resists the existential nature of the written medium to be linear, to connect, to have a beginning, middle, and end. Here, juxtaposition is all, and the ample gaps of white synaptic space between the crots invites the reader to collaborate in the making of meaning in the text. This exploded fiction explodes. It celebrates that to be creative is not about making something new out of nothing but that the new is a consequence of dedicated arrangement, the content re-contextualized. In this compelling fiction, language is embossed, highlighted, and decidedly defamiliarized. Like a kinetic Tinguely sculpture, this articulated structure animates its own expansive destruction and centripetal demise.”

— Michael Martone, citation from the Booth Prize for Unexpected Literature

I ASK MY SISTER’S GHOST, DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, July 2020

Review of I Ask My Sister’s Ghost by Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber

Poem: I Ask My Sister’s Ghost to Take me With Her - Poetry Daily, originally published in Harvard Review

Poem: I Ask My Sister’s Ghost to Play a Game of Cribbage- Verse Daily, originally published in Southern Indiana Review