Sasha Debevec Mckenney - Joy Is My Middle Name _alt_Tommy Smits – Homo Dentis recently released from incarceration for

recently released from incarceration for selling drugs and attempted murder

knick knacks on the shelf

And the crew’s “Vom Silber verweht” (“Gone with the Silver”) piece

kitsch displays – using them to probe how images shape

Sasha Debevec Mckenney - Joy Is My Middle Name _alt_Tommy Smits – Homo Dentis recently released from incarceration forJoy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner. Full