Trailer Park Psalms: Poems

Longlist Finalist, 2023 Julie Suk Award
Finalist, 2026 Poet of the Year, Only Poems

Trailer Park Psalms traces the speaker’s journey beyond his boyhood trailer park, through an American landscape marked by violence—from a gas line explosion in his hometown to his father’s war memories to the scars of colonialism inscribed in place, language, and ecology. Along the way, he searches for sources of awe that might inspire us, even in a compromised world: the everyday miracle of eyesight, the cour...