BOOKS
“All the Months in December”, Bottlecap Press, 2022
“We Get Through: A Pandemy Cookbook”, Saalt Press, 2022
“Of You and For Me”, Bottlecap Press, 2022
There are many months in December, all of which are cold and dreary and filled with dry fruit, soups, and cookies with way too much spice. All the Months in December regard the holiday season as the desolate wasteland that it is. Take comfort in the tundra and the frozen tumble weeds wading through cuffing season with this collection of poems this December and all the months that follow.
Of You and For Me is a collection of poems involving friend-breakups, cold creek water, soulmates, and, above all else, food. While eating the collection itself is not an option, consider a dive into nineteen poems based around literature and snacks, all while focusing on indulgence in relationships and the limits we face internally. Simultaneously a procession to the kitchen fridge and a frail disposition to the expectations of others, Of You and For Me places the reader in a shaded stream, an after-hours Schnucks and a snack-filled study room in the corner of your favorite library. Live to indulge and find yourself in this neurotic grocery list.
We Get Through: A Pandemy Cookbook is a community cookbook of recipes and reflections by humans living through the global COVID 19 pandemic. For Two years we were separate and stuck inside watching the world fall apart, and currently three years into it, we’re still reeling from the effects of this shifting time. The core of this book is processing our relationships to food and how our minds and bodies can hold on to trauma. Many of us have been taught to think that food is something to be locked up and rationed. Pleasure is something to be earned, and these fleshy vessels to be weighed, speculated, and regulated. I’m hoping that with this book, we can offer a place of quiet to unpack all that.
Featuring contributions from 29 humans around the globe, this collection spends time with the emotions, and breakdowns and breakthroughs of driving a body with needs, in a crumbling reality.
