{"product_id":"shufjm","title":"Shuffle Play, by Jill Michelle","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the choose-your-own-poem chapbook, \u003cem\u003eShuffle Play\u003c\/em\u003e, Jill Michelle invites readers to transport themselves in creative ways through this collection of song-inspired, narrative pieces. \u003cem\u003eShuffle Play\u003c\/em\u003e’s assorted poems explore themes of coming-of-age, sexual assault\/PTSD, motherhood, love, loss and grief. The works here, examining both everyday moments and historical events like 9\/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, are composed in both free and formal verse with acrostic, ghazal, sonnet and tanka\/waka forms represented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusical artists whose songs inspired the poems in \u003cem\u003eShuffle Play\u003c\/em\u003e include Beck, Pat Benatar, The Clash, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Fruit Bats, Ben Harper, The Hold Steady, Billie Holiday, The J. Geils Band, The Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, No Doubt, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pixies, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, R.E.M., Sandy Rogers, The Shins, Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, Stealers Wheel, The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, The White Stripes and Wilco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Arranged to mimic the functionality of a jukebox, Jill Michelle's \u003cem\u003eShuffle Play\u003c\/em\u003e demands to be kept in your pocket and opened at random. Whether you open to ‘the shock of saffron-shot treetops’ or you ‘wake to crimson,’ each poem is a stop on the tour: here is where you place your grief, here, your love, just over yonder, your rage, and there you go, ‘pedals spun furiously \/ under sneakered feet, not yet \/ needing to know their destination.’ No matter where you appear, let the numerical jukebox codes at the bottom of each poem guide you through Jill Michelle's \u003cem\u003eShuffle Play\u003c\/em\u003e. You'll want to hit repeat when you're done.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Shilo Niziolek, author of \u003cem\u003eLittle Deaths\u003c\/em\u003e (Riot in Your Throat, 2024), \u003cem\u003eatrophy\u003c\/em\u003e (Querencia, 2023) and \u003cem\u003eDirt Eaters\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottlecap, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJill Michelle is the author of \u003cem\u003eUnderwater\u003c\/em\u003e (Riot in Your Throat, 2025) and winner of the 2023 NORward Prize for Poetry. Her poems and creative nonfiction pieces have appeared in literary journals such as \u003cem\u003e805 Lit + Art\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDMQ Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDrunk Monkeys\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSWWIM Every Day\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. Find more of her work at byjillmichelle.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jill Michelle","offers":[{"title":"Print Chapbook","offer_id":48702130651451,"sku":"SHUFJM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":48702130684219,"sku":"SHUFJMe","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/shufflefront.png?v=1715738042","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/shufjm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}