My project for this coming year is twofold. First, I’ll be completing work on my second collection of poems, Every Last Thing. Many of the pieces in this manuscript focus on icons of Americana, and meditate on the temporality and insularity of joy, our means of navigating between bliss and grief, and the ability and failure of language to convey these extremities of emotion. In addition, I’ll be developing a book-length series of lyric essays, many of which employ Japanese haikus as vehicles for meditation on far-flung topics culled from history, art, poetry, and personal narrative.