How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye

How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil KayeRobert Wood Lynn, 2023 Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale. These narrative poems, influenced by storytelling traditions, find themselves at the nexus of the intimate and the humorous, as well as the absurd and the tragic. These poems examine isolation and grief in their many formsthrough heartbreak or the death of loved ones, or show us the world looking

Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death - reminding us that they need not be one and the same

Birthright is a miraculous debut that “rewrites graves into sunrise” and crafts a poetics in which “every pronoun is a Free Palestine

the capacious yearning that loss yields

– Joy Sullivan

National Youth Poet Laureate

we made these tapes not just to capture the sound

we are alive

a father tending a fire—and utterly unflinching

2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalist 2018 Broken River Prize Finalist Praise for Topaz Winters

Blue Oyster Cult

Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives

and the death of a loved one