There is a strange violence in becoming a person. Not the sort that announces itself, but the quieter kind: wanting too much, trusting the wrong certainty, mistaking attention for permanence, discovering how quickly devotion can sour into dependence, and realizing that sometimes the person you are most capable of abandoning is yourself.This collection lives inside those less flattering rooms of girlhood and young womanhood. It moves through imagined motherhood and its terror, the u...

Radio Silence is not a collection about healing.It is a collection about what remains when healing never arrives.Across these poems, love is dissected until it resembles theology, ambition is tried like a criminal, language itself becomes both refuge and punishment, and survival is revealed to be less a triumph than an occupation. Lovers become false gods, cities surrender long before their gates are breached, wolves abandon shepherds they adore, rivers are devoure...

[Unavailable] is a collection of poems about grief that never found a language.The work follows the slow accumulation of pressure—academic, social, and emotional—and the ways constant evaluation reshapes how a person learns to exist. These poems move through depression, trauma, girlhood, shame, and survival with attention to what is often dismissed as manageable, normal, or not severe enough to name.Much of the collection is concerned with silence: the kind that develops as...

Every life is built upon inherited certainties. We inherit our definitions of beauty, our understanding of love, our language for grief, our notions of identity, devotion, memory, ambition, and loss. Rarely do we stop to ask whether these beliefs were ever true, or merely repeated often enough to become familiar.This collection inhabits that uncertainty.Through a series of philosophically driven poems, ordinary ideas are dismantled and reconstructed into stranger forms. Lov...

This book is not interested in saving you.It moves through fear, control, pleasure, and erosion with the understanding that none of them resolve into clarity. What it records instead are moments of contact: the body reacting before thought, the mind inventorying its limits, the quiet competence required to continue without believing it will lead anywhere better. These poems do not explain life. They observe it deteriorating, adjusting, and persisting anyway.The work is stru...

This book is a map of all the things a person is told to hide. The hunger. The fear. The wounds that never earned names. The stories that were taken instead of given.Across these pages you will find poems that move through ruin and rise, through the long shadows of survival, and into the fragile light that waits afterward. The collection explores desire in its sharpest forms, the quiet violences people learn to live with, the ways power twists itself inside relationships, ...

Survivor's Liturgy is a collection of poems that traces the anatomy of endurance, exploring what it means to live after ruin and rebuild when silence has already named you.Told in five parts, it moves through violence, aftermath, survival, and the slow, imperfect act of healing. Each poem is a reckoning with memory, with the body, and with the inheritance of grief. It is a book for those who have learned to function through pain and are still trying to call that survival something ...

This poetry collection documents the things modern life has learned to tolerate: violence without pause, inequality without outrage, debt without escape, bodies without privacy, relationships without permanence, empathy without action. It interrogates the systems and habits we've been told are inevitable—and asks what they cost us, quietly, over time.These poems are rooted in the real world: extreme wealth concentration beside mass poverty, medical and student debt as lifelong rest...

Some families inherit silver.Others inherit silence.Mistake is an excavation of the latter.Through a series of metaphysical poems that borrow from mythology, theology, history, and the natural sciences, Avery Arbegast constructs an archive of memory against the machinery of forgetting. Here, love becomes obligation, survival becomes accusation, and language is forced to bear the weight of what generations have preferred to rename.These poems are not...

Love is often described as unconditional, limitless, and capable of healing anything.I no longer believe that.These poems explore what happens when devotion becomes identity, when compassion turns into self-erasure, and when the desperate desire to save another person slowly consumes the one doing the saving. Drawing on the imagery and philosophy of seventeenth-century poetry, they examine insecurity, sacrifice, obsession, hope, resentment, and the painful realization that ...

What does a person become after believing the same lie about themselves for long enough? Long is a meditation on the private philosophies we inherit without consent: the conviction that we are burdens, that we are unworthy of tenderness, that love must first inspect every hidden room before deciding to remain. Across these poems, fear is questioned, shame is called to testify, memory is treated as an unreliable witness, and devotion becomes less an emotion than an...

This book explores what happens after fear stops being persuasive.Through a series of intimate, sensory poems, it traces the impact of a religious upbringing rooted in control, silence, and moral surveillance, then moves into the unfamiliar space that follows leaving it behind. The work is not interested in arguing theology or replacing belief with certainty. Instead, it asks a quieter question: how do you live well when no one is watching and nothing is promised?The poems ...