Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners Matam blends elements of West-African

Matam blends elements of West-African folklore and contemporary poetics to journey through the eyes of The Boy – a reflection of their inner child and an impossible future – trying to honor who they are by accepting who they were always meant to be

and the brutal

author of If My Body Could Speak

gender to sexuality

Through snapshots both tragic and humorous

Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners Matam blends elements of West-AfricanIn 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