Cipota Adam Falkner

Cipota Adam FalknerChelsea Guevaras Cipota breathes a lineage into a songmaking music of ancestral memory: dirges of heartbreak and generational trauma, anthems of rage and reclamation, ballads of love and homecoming. Guevaras voice enchants as she delves into history, ancestry, and the selfreaching for a lineage that has been battered by strife and strangled by colonialism. She moves through place and memory with deft skill and earnest humanity. Cipota examines the

– Michael Mlekoday

If poems are flexible things that can live in air or on any manner of page

Part post-apocalyptic road journal

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Runner-Up (Best Poetry Book)

Rudy's work rises above the chaos to offer a fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty

in the rituals of love and family that we pass on

Buddy keenly unpacks topics like the intense overcompensation of his masculinity

and the process of recovery

Simply put

— Tyehimba Jess

Usman Hameedi

Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented through a Southern Lens