redacted is a collection of erasure and free-verse poems written and assembled over six years by a twenty-something queer.

what is erasure poetry? think a redacted federal document where just a few dozen words are visible. the mind can only speculate what is blacked out and make sense of what is visible. yinning that redacted yang, in this collection, is a score of daringly raw, honest—sometimes cagey—and anecdotally unfiltered free-verse poems. open to interpretation (or not) = redacted's modus operandi.

“poetry is not an expression of the party line. it’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.”

-allen ginsberg