We Were More Than Kindling - Morey-Collins, Jessica
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A powerful debut chapbook by poet Jessica Morey-Collins. Entitlement is a hell of a drug. The load-bearing grifts, propping up a culture of dominance, range from the canonized hierarchies that inform interpersonal and social violence, to the ecological and economic abuses of extractive resource management and disaster capitalism. WE WERE MORE THAN KINDLING is a confessional account of the author's navigation of these systems, a collection of poems that endeavors to make meaning where the personal and political collide. We follow the speaker's reckoning of an intimate history of persistent…mehr

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A powerful debut chapbook by poet Jessica Morey-Collins. Entitlement is a hell of a drug. The load-bearing grifts, propping up a culture of dominance, range from the canonized hierarchies that inform interpersonal and social violence, to the ecological and economic abuses of extractive resource management and disaster capitalism. WE WERE MORE THAN KINDLING is a confessional account of the author's navigation of these systems, a collection of poems that endeavors to make meaning where the personal and political collide. We follow the speaker's reckoning of an intimate history of persistent sexualization and consent violation with the disillusion of coming of age in an era when abuse of power is a feature, not a bug. This collection builds momentum through a cynical premise, following its speaker's defiant claim-staking over their own body, agency, and pleasure.
Autorenporträt
Jessica Morey-Collins is a poet and land use planner who works as a plans examiner in the Pacific Northwest. Jessica's poems appear in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Cotton Xenomorph, Maudlin House, Hobart, Tinderbox, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. The opening poem of WE WERE MORE THAN KINDLING (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), "Promise to Recede" won the 2018 Prism Review Poetry Contest. Jessica was awarded an MFA in poetry at the University of New Orleans, and won an Academy of American Poets award, the Maxine and Joseph Cassin Prize for poetry thesis, and also worked as associate poetry editor for Bayou Magazine. Jessica earned a Master's of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon, focused on strategies to enhance organizational, economic, and community resilience, and won the American Planning Association (APA) Academic Achievement Award. Jessica has worked as an urban planner, educator, GIS marketer, curriculum developer, and graduate writing consultant. She is a mental health advocate, trauma survivor, and a straight-passing queer, who spends her spare time doting on her friends, handsome partner, and cats.