Smut Psalm 2020 Books

Smut Psalm 2020 BooksJosh Tvrdy, 2024. Winner of Button Poetrys 2023 Chapbook Contest, Josh Tvrdys Smut Psalm is a queer coming of age, equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism. Smut Psalms poems reckon with self discovery and sexual curiosityinterspersed with Church Board Interrogation interludes, which act as a dialogue between a homophobic church voice and a witty, increasingly defiant poetic speaker. Altogether, Tvrdy crafts an intimate, surreal spectacle.

From an ode to Bodegas

making sure each finish line leaves a reader breathless

an “act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone

In language that is both pungent and poignant

the immigrant experience

It serves us grief

Guante rattles

Gibson does not just show up to pluck your heart strings

and award-winning film maker from St

From reverence to ruin

author of Ephemera

– Andrea Gibson