collateral damage when the big one hits, by Taylor Powers

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

collateral damage when the big one hits is a collection of poetry that addresses the everyday casualties of modern “living.” With a critical eye and flair for the existential, this chapbook contemplates and challenges our current modes of operation under capitalism. It questions everything we’re being fed—media, political propaganda, dreams—as well as how we digest, process, and expel those encounters back into the world.

At once a rallying cry of frustration and container for American pop culture of the 21st century, themes of death, tech, and isolation mirror the consumptive mentality and increasing surreality which so pervade the author’s 30th rotation around the sun.

Taylor Powers is a pop punk poet and independent zine editor based in Chicago. She runs Pot/Luck Literary Magazine with a coven of queers, as well as attack of the fembots on Ghost. Her work has been featured in MyrtleHaus Magazine and Heart Locket, among others. When she’s not writing, check The Music Box or lakeshore for signs of life. You can find her echoes on Instagram and Letterboxd @teapow.