Sundress Publications announces the release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith.
Here, thirty-three authors share their experiences with sexual trauma, each poem raw and tender like a thumb pressing a bruise. It is a vulnerable exploration into profound anger, grief, betrayal—but the very existence of this anthology speaks to each writer’s tenacity, bravery, strength, and hope. Delicate Machinery is a reminder that we are never alone in our pain, and these poems offer a space to reflect, mourn, and heal together.
Contributors include Diannely Antigua, Willa Bell, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Shlagha Borah, Dustin Brookshire, Rowan Quince Buckton, Ali C, Rivka Clifton, Asa Drake, Leila Farjami, Anthony Frame, Stephanie Frazee, Teddy L. Friedline, Andrea Fry, Stephanie Glazier, Harrison Hamm, Abby Hanna, A.M. Hayden, Maurya Kerr, Alysse Kathleen McCanna, Brittany Micka-Foos, Zain Murdock, Cassandra Myers, Blessing Omeiza Ojo, Bleah Patterson, Amy Pence, eva pensis, Zoey Plytas, Kimberly Ann Priest, Molly Pershin Raynor, Heidi Seaborn, Anindita Sengupta, and Millie Tullis.
Delicate Machinery is available to download for free!
Erin Elizabeth Smith (she/her) is the author of DOWN (SFASU, 2020) and founder of Best of the Net. Her work appears in Guernica, Ecotone, and The Kenyon Review. She directs Sundress Publications and teaches at the University of Tennessee. She lives in Knoxville.
