Joy Is My Middle Name Dochters Mendelssohn was sentenced to ten

Mendelssohn was sentenced to ten years for conspiracy to cause explosions

The forest is a source of energy

and The Relation Ship

Liliana Ponce

Translator Danielle Pieratti captures the dissonance of Borio’s sharp lyricism and clipped rhythms

Joy Is My Middle Name Dochters Mendelssohn was sentenced to tenSasha Debevec McKenney Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend,