Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners Praise for The Only Worlds

Praise for The Only Worlds We Know

— Sierra Demulder

Balcones Poetry Prize - Finalist

We’re given a scrapbook black community and coming-of age

a reverent masterpiece

Forgotten Necessities Chapbook Contest Winners Praise for The Only WorldsIn his anticipated second collection, Forgotten Necessities, Jared Singer wears love and loss on his skin. Through spell bindingly immersive storytelling, Singer digs to the roots of our deepest woes and cradles our joys with utmost tenderness. Intimacy and vulnerability ache across the time and space of these poems. Forgotten Necessities holds its sadness sacredly and builds shrines to the hope that follows. Persistent reminders of the small