Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners a reverent masterpiece

a reverent masterpiece

and the brutal

Through snapshots both tragic and humorous

The nerve-shaking honesty with which Phipps interrogates the complexity of that tether

Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners a reverent masterpieceIn his anticipated second collection, Forgotten Necessities, Jared Singer wears love and loss on his skin. Through spell bindingly immersive storytelling, Singer digs to the roots of our deepest woes and cradles our joys with utmost tenderness. Intimacy and vulnerability ache across the time and space of these poems. Forgotten Necessities holds its sadness sacredly and builds shrines to the hope that follows. Persistent reminders of the small