Toast While the World Burns, by Arielle Arbushites

Poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Toast While the World Burns is a poetry collection showcasing motherhood as both sanctuary and battleground. The poems move between intimate domestic moments and the wider cultural forces shaping them, revealing how small acts of love are forms of resistance.

In this collection, Arielle Arbushites examines life in all its iterations and instances, but does so from a feminist perspective that is deeply human. Where there is strength, there is also softness. Where there is rage, there is also tenderness. The kind of shared sadness that will no doubt resonate with many is but a piece of the portrait of living in a world where joy and connection still remain as powerful reminders of survival.

Arielle Arbushites is a licensed social worker who has been a writer all her life. She has been published in over 30 lit mags/journals such as Maudlin House, Underbelly Press, the Midway Journal, and the South Florida Poetry Journal, among others. Arielle lives and writes in Lehigh Valley, PA where she balances motherhood, hospice work, and poetry as a means of understanding what it is to be alive.