Author of…
It’s Easy To Lose Your Breath (Match Factory Editions)
out in May 2026
There’s No Future Where We Don’t Have Fire (Unsolicited Press)
out in 2027
and
Do Us A Favor
Do Us a Favor pulls the reader into spaces that may feel all too familiar, all too unbelievable, and, yet, all too real. Borrowing text from the 2019 phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this chapbook explores the world as it was before, during, and after 2020. The narrator trundles down paths, through cafés and portals, onto lawns and into the topmost floors of skyscrapers, and even to outer space — all while confronting the narrow-mindedness and hate of others, the oppressive weight of existence, and a planet spiraling to a place that feels irretrievable.
“Do Us a Favor balances existential dread and hope, yet these are poems concerned with people, the concrete struggles individuals face on a daily basis. ‘Make these words brighter than a bonfire’—and this object is the poet’s practice. A powerful and necessary book.
—Charles Kell, author of Cage of Lit Glass
Kevin A. Risner 