How does a family heal from brutal trauma? The speaker in Relative Hearts faces the burdens of both his namesake and his past by digging to uncover personal details while there are still witnesses to tell (their versions of) the truth. Having endured a world in which queerness equals endangerment, the speaker struggles to untangle his own survival mechanisms and come to terms with how prolonged physical abuse has shaped his, and his family's, identities. Propelled by longing to find a way forward without shame, these unflinching poems embrace the broken world with compassion and fierce hope.

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Ron Mohring is the author of four previous poetry chapbooks, including Amateur Grief (Frank O'Hara Prize) and The David Museum (Diagram/ New Michigan Press). His full-length collections are Survivable World (Washington Prize) and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees (The Word Works, 2024). Ron has received both the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing and the Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, where for several years he taught composition and creative writing. In 2007 he founded Seven Kitchens Press, which has published over 200 hand-sewn chapbooks and still operates from his kitchen table. Ron lives with his husband in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Eileen Cleary is a nurse, editor and poet living in Massachusetts. She founded and is EIC of Lily Poetry Review Books and is the author of 'Child Ward of the Commonwealth' (2019, ) '2 a.m. with Keats" (2021, ) and 'Wild Pack of the Living' (2024.)

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