Slayyyter, Recession Indicator
Slayyyter is the queen of dilapidation, and partying is her defiance against a socio-political structure designed to keep the majority down.
Dawn Tefft
Dawn Tefft’s poems appear in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fence and are forthcoming in a “Radical Poets of the Midwest” folio in Poetry. Her nonfiction appears in PopMatters, Pleiades Book Review, Roanoke Review, Jacobin, and Truthout. Dawn’s first full-length poetry book, Once Upon a Riot (2025), is published by Match Factory Editions.
Her chapbooks include Gosling (Anhinga Press), Fist (Dancing Girl Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark). After growing up in poverty, she earned a PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
She works as a union representative in Chicago, is an editor for Packingtown Review, and volunteers in the area of immigrant rights and as a lead organizer for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
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