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ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG’S 349 Things I Don’t Need to Worry About Right Now

Charity Organization: Homeboy Industries

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ABOUT: 349 Things I Don’t Need to Worry About Right Now is a multi-part poem that explores the limits of sanity and sense-making, employing absurdist humor as a tool for investigating difficult mental states. It examines the comedy and terror of our historical moment as refracted through a perseverating mind. The poem simultaneously participates in and critiques the forms of capitalist self-soothing that are often recommended as ways to combat such states, rejecting the notion that anxiety can be alleviated through any simple self-help fix.

BIOGRAPHY/LINK: Elizabeth Marie Young
Elizabeth Marie Young is a Boston-based poet and educator. Her first book of poems, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books. She is also the author of Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome, a book about the ancient Roman understanding of lyric translation and literary creativity. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Squire Foundation. Her poems have recently appeared in journals including The Chicago Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sugar House Review, and TriQuarterly.

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MICHAEL GARDNER’S Comfort Dog

Charity Organization: Institute of American Indian Arts

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ABOUT:
In this post-everything world, our devices serve up an unending stream of micro-glimpses, thousands of fragments orienting our experience and availing a reality of surface. Comfort Dog is an attempt at a more sustained window of vision, inspired by the poetic lineage of the deep image. Lyric is the primary mode of telling stories in these poems, offering an improbable way into ideas and things. Gardner’s poems make correspondences that trigger a morphic resonance, like “enticing a string / to a luckless button.”

BIOGRAPHY /LINK: Michael Gardner
Michael Gardner lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of three chapbooks, Comfort Dog (Clones Go Home), Opening Out (Lumino), and Acoustic Shadows (le spiaggia). His work has appeared in Tyger Quarterly, Action Spectacle, and BlazeVOX. He was the publisher of the coffee house poetry zine, The Independent, that was hand-delivered with comrades around to LA’s outposts.