Motion Sickness: Poetry, Prose, and Sociopolitical Essays

After exploring the arts and spoken word worlds of her native Chicago and the US East Coast, award-winning journalist, poet, and dreamer Clara Rose Thornton visited Germany for what was supposed to be three idyllic months of writing and rest. What followed was nearly a decade of intensive sociopolitical turmoil, with her at the forefront of various movements in Ireland and across Europe. As the Black Lives Matter movement was birthed, the Syrian refugee crisis surged, Ireland legalized abor...