Tooth Gaps in the Archives D.C. An earnest look at the

An earnest look at the difficulties of fighting a system from within

My Dear Cult Leader is for anyone finding their way back to themselves

Josh Tvrdy

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This collection soars like a beacon

Tooth Gaps in the Archives D.C. An earnest look at theWinner of the 2025 Button Poetry First Book Contest. Set in Southeast Louisianaone of the last regions in the contemporary United States to resist full AmericanizationTooth Gaps in the Archives traces how place based cultural memory persists beyond its disappearing geography and amid a cycle of forced migration, an emerging domestic climate diaspora, and the slow violence enacted against a people whose power has been systematically withheld through