Why I Sleep with the Lights On, by Janet Lynn Gerges

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Why I Sleep with the Lights On is in defense of nightmares, hallucinations, fears, and, most importantly, sleeping with the lights on. This chapbook faces nightmare fuel head-on.

In this work, Janet Lynn Gerges practices the art of prose poetry mixed with surrealist images to confuse readers of what’s real and what’s a dream. Our waking life is just as real as our unconscious mind.

Janet is a New York-born-and-raised poet, writer, translator, journalist, and talker. She’s been published in the 64th and 65th editions of Aphros Literary Magazine as well as the most recent edition of Pace University’s Transactions Magazine. She’s currently spending her time refining her voice at Columbia University’s MFA program. In her free time, she reads, writes, hikes, crochets, and learns how to play chess. She believes poetry comes easy when you have a passion for life and a will to be vulnerable.