Sundress Publications announces the release of Jed Myers’s e-chapbook, Anyone’s Dust. A tender and haunting meditation on war and its harrowing effects, Jed Myers’s Anyone’s Dust indulges in themes of intergenerational trauma, recent tragedies in Eastern European wars, and love’s stubborn persistence despite it all. Lush with lyrical imagery, textured and sensory metaphors, and a devotedly fierce voice, these poems integrate episodic narratives of Myers’s family story with that of a greater geopolitical landscape.
Vulnerable and equally potent, Myers writes in varying forms, including sonnets and elegies, about the aftermath of rubble and despair, and the complication of “the grief-chasm.” He is, most ardently, focused on what happens after tragedy: the ways that humans continue on with their lives. Anyone’s Dust is an ode to Myers’s family, Jewish heritage, and delicately positioned political tensions. From the Tigris to Bakhmut to Gaza, Myers collides the fury of war with the tenderness of love in a collection that is sure to evoke great pain and even greater reflection.
Julia Kolchinsky, author of Parallax and 40 Weeks says, “The poems of Anyone’s Dust mustn’t be read, but rather inhaled and deeply.”
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Jed Myers, a Seattle-based poet and editor of Bracken, is the author of Anyone’s Dust (Sundress Publications, 2025) and several other award-winning collections, with Can’t Be Far forthcoming from Moonpath Press in 2026. His poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Review, and more.
