How You Come Back Author|Andrew Felsher

How You Come Back Author|Andrew FelsherOn the evening before Thanksgiving break, Sunny finds herself in the classroom of a teacher every girl knows better than to be alone with. With the pressure of his palm seared into her thigh, she slams through the school doors into the autumn cold and flees to the relative safety of her broken home, setting off a chain of events that upends her life. With every emotional wound unraveling inside her, Sunny fixates on her estranged drug addicted mother

his stripped down lines ringing with truth and dripping with punchlines

Some especially strong poems describe three seasons of service on a fire crew a coming-of-age process in which the speaker learns the job develops camaraderie dreams of women and begins to know his profession

that ultimately raises Hoagland's poetry to the level of great art

the PEN Poetry Series

blurs the line between actor and audience

Psychopath

from red states and blue states

To reply into the void of empire and late capitalism with a howl of authenticity

2022) and the visual poetry collection Smear (BlazeVOX

but you're the best Charlie there is

It was a joy to enter the settings

She studied poetry at the University of Maine and Boise State University