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Sleepwalking
by Maura Modeya

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This collection was selected as the Runner Up for the MAYDAY 2024 Micro-Chapbook Poetry contest.

“In Sleepwalking, the voice operates in a register of intimate defiance in the liminal space, confrontational yet matter-of-fact. Being back in a time of heightened state control and institutional power, I am compelled by its confrontational tone and queer erotic autonomy as a political declaration against the machinations of power.”

– Angela Peñaredondo, 2024 Micro-Chapbook Contest Judge

 

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MAURA MODEYA is a poet from rural Minnesota. Their work focuses on dykes with insomnia, the ghost of Sappho, U.S. empire violence, queer ecology, and the reclamation  of public space through wheatpasting. Maura’s writing has appeared in Hot Pink Mag, Visible Binary, MAYDAY, The Texas Review, and elsewhere, along with their chapbook Only Interested in Everything (Meekling Press). She holds an MFA from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and currently lives in Atlanta.  

 

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