Praise and Reviews

“What new terror is possible when removing the savagery of war from view? Louise Akers frames the corrosive applications for us with the magical and strange temperament of angels and gods to understand how much violence our tax dollars and prayers pay for on our behalf, like shoving bank statements and bibles down bleeding, choking throats. The love and beauty that breaks open in the middle of it is the capacity of a fantastic poet who sees how we are all on trial in the end and how we may well be our own and worst judges.” —CAConrad

About the Author

Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, New York. They earned their MFA from Brown University in May of 2018, and received the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize for Innovative Writing in 2017 and the Confrontation Poetry Prize in 2019. Their chapbook, Alien Year, was selected by Brandon Shimoda for the 2020 Oversound Chapbook Prize. Akers's work can be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, MIDTERM, Bat City Review, Fugue Journal, Confrontation Magazine, bæst journal, and elsewhere.