Consider the Rooster

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2024 BY LIT HUB AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NBCC AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2025 CLMP FIRECRACKER AWARD IN POETRY Consider the Rooster serves as an ode to a rooster’s crow, a catalyst for awakening, both literally and figuratively. Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police, and the resulting upsurge in reactionary right-wing militia violence, a neighbor in Kalamazoo, Michigan threatens to cal