Drive Here and Devastate Me

"The morning after Orlando, we hang our heads half-staff. My love shrugs my arm off their shoulderand reminds me where we are: We’re at a rest stop, we’re somewhere in the Midwest. The shooter’s father said his son opened up the chest of that nightclub and undid its pulse because he saw two men kissing in t......more

Said the Gun to the Woman on Her Way to Planned Parenthood What pisses me off is that you are the one they call murderer. Treat me like a thing to protect, and you get to be the monster. Like it was not me who shot up the club and gave new meaning to a last dance. Not me who sat back in my hotel room and t......more

I’ve been obsessed with Megan Falley’s work for awhile now, and I was very excited to read this book from the get-go. Her poetry is very different from the poems of others (specifically her partner, Andrea (which isn’t to say I don’t love Andrea’s work because I absolutely do)), and the nuances pres......more

Falley is a powerhouse of a poet. She is funny and fearless and brash and tender. This book feels like a natural extension of her person. It is such a charming and gut-wrenching work. I look forward to revisiting it again and again in the future.......more

LOVED this! Not usually a big poetry girlie, but this had me in tears so many times. Beautiful poems about love and partnership......more