Gutters reads America’s remaining local print newspapers to create a found poetry of lost housing. All text is found spanning the gap (‘gutter’) between two or more adjacent columns of newsprint in articles pertaining to the housing crisis, land conservation, and climate catastrophe. Through both collage and verse, Gutters questions what home becomes when most of the country can’t afford one and what happens to communities when they lose trustworthy, consistent, and independent coverage of local and national news.
Gutters has been featured (or is forthcoming) in DIAGRAM, the Adroit Journal, Northwest Review, The Pinch, December, Sprung Formal, and elsewhere.
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