In Sherri Levine's I Remember Not Sleeping time and space collapses like a star. This poem is good company for anyone who has struggled with mental health, for anyone who has felt alone, for anyone being bounced around in the sea of life. Which is to say, it’s a poem for all of us. —Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry

Elisa Carlsen's Cormorant is a work of contrition. The poems are political and personal. A response to the federal government's plan to kill thousands of cormorants in the name of salmon recovery and a tribute to the person who died from heartbreak because of it.