The Dead Eat Everything

Acknowledgments

61 a c k n o W L e d g M e n t s Many thanks to the following journals in which versions of these poems, sometimes under different titles, first appeared: Anti-: “dictator, by Which i Mean the Mother Brandishing a Pistol with a Piñata over her head” Birdfeast: “going north” The Cincinnati Review: “drop” and “Forage” The Collagist: “genealogy” EPOCH: “self-Portrait, Fat tuesday” Hayden’s Ferry Review: “self-Portrait with gunshot vernacular” The Journal: “Flood” kill author: “cartilage, cartilage” Muzzle Magazine: “Baba sits you on the kitchen table and teaches you all the old-school curses” and “Bobby hasn’t eaten in Three days” The New: “self-Portrait from the other side” Ninth Letter: “self-Portrait, Wearing Bear skull as Mask” Ploughshares: “in Minneapolis, My Father” Revolution House: “The Motherland” RHINO: “home remedies” Sou’wester: “self-Portrait, downtown” and “self-Portrait Wherein everything Whirrs with the spirit” Sycamore Review: “Maker” Toad: “self-Portrait with Pollination” Union Station Magazine: “self-Portrait with Blight” The Yalobusha Review: “self-Portrait with Big city religion” Many thanks to dorianne Laux for selecting this book for the stan and tom Wick Poetry Prize and for her editorial insight. Thanks to david hassler and the staff at the Wick Poetry center and the kent state University Press for their guidance and hard work in making this book a real thing. 6 i owe everything to my teachers, friends, colleagues, and fam for all their support and wisdom during the making of these poems, especially: elizabeth dodd, ross gay, Margaret ronda, adrian Matejka, dan hoyt, Lily duffy, sierra deMulder, sam cook, khary Jackson, steph horvath, doug Paul case, Jennifer Luebbers, ife-chudeni oputa, cate Lycurgus, nandi comer, katie Moulton, keith Leonard, Michael Lee, dylan garity , hieu Minh nguyen, neil hilborn, colin Welch, sarah rock, alex Zimmermann, ryane hart, Jimbo ivy, dan hornsby. Most of all, thank you to my mother, my father, and grandma toni; this book is for them. ...