Adult Night at Skate World

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The poems inAdult Night at Skate Worldn the seemingly mundane. These are songs of the anti-poetic, overlooked and assumed lost cause: Craigslist Missed Connections, getting snubbed at a rock show, middle-aged roller rink attendees, the class loser, a swan longing to mate with a paddleboat. But instead of scorn, they invite our laughter. Instead of dismissal, compassion. In place of cool cynicism, awe.

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Christina Kallerys poetry has appeared inFailbetter,Rattle,The Collagist,Gargoyle,andMudlark,amongother publications, and has been included in several anthologies, includingBest of the WebandRespect: The Poetry of Detroit Music. She has served as submissions editor forAbsinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translationand poetry editor forFailbetter. She grew up near the woods in Michigans Upper Peninsula before living in the Detroit area and then New York City. She currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.