LOWERCOUNTRY

LOWERCOUNTRY is the winner of elsewhere magazine’s 2024 prose poetry
chapbook contest, judged by Monica Brashears

“reading LOWERCOUNTRY felt like finding a strange door left ajar and stepping beyond it. the pieces hold the past and all its taxidermies, cloying summer, childlike wonder, and so much life—all delivered in a landslide of gorgeous language.” —Monica Brashears

here's a brief excerpt from "1111 New Garden Rd": "The last day in Greensboro the disposal belched spinach potting soil and dishwater underneath the washing machine. Compost flooded the narrow hallway and you and i unfurled two rolls of paper towels and sopped every washcloth in th house in the half-organic swirl until everything was dry again."

6 in. x 4 in., cover art by Ment Nelson