University of Akron Press to Publish A Ways Away by Krystal Languell

The University of Akron Press is delighted to announce that it will publish the poetry collection A Ways Away by Krystal Languell as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.

Krystal Languell lives in Chicago. She is the author of four previous books of poetry, most recently Systems Thinking with Flowers (2022), selected by Rae Armantrout as the winner of the first Fonograf Editions book contest. She works for a nonprofit in the suburbs, and in her unpaid time participates in dynamic resource mobilization with and for her neighbors. Since 2010, she has helped guide the activity of Belladonna* Collaborative and, as Bone Bouquet, she sometimes acts as a publisher.

In three movements, turning from everyday horror to the natural world and back again, A Ways Away connects the dots between social death, politicized medicine, and environmental degradation. This is a collection cracked open by the fractured logic of early COVID. These are poems with dirt under their fingernails.

The University of Akron Press plans to release A Ways Away in 2027.

View more of the Akron Series in Poetry here.