Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including Bootstrapped and Squeezed, and two books of poetry, most recently Thoughts and Prayers. She is also the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a media nonprofit that she created with Barbara Ehrenreich.

Poetry

‘Salt Lake Sonnet,’ ‘Meno Pause,’ & ‘Confidence Men’

Salt Lake Sonnet Basalt rocks, gnats, red sea, plankton, skin fried. Holy Water cafe: where blondes eat sweets. Extinction all in CAPS. All signified. Hot Dome; salt dust. Canada’s forest heats. Bible landscape. A geologist shows me some Quartzite rock—my name—also in vain. What is worth saving now; the sand,

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WINTER 2024