Other Times, Midnight

Andrea Ballou’s intimate meditations on loss urge us toward the fullness of being human, daring us, despite it all, to love again. Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.

In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss—death, divorce, and departures—and asks the toughest questions: how do we contend with grief and remorse, and where does the spirit go to wait out trauma? Ballou’s poems fight an “impulse to not speak,” aware t...