Tooth Gaps in the Archives D.C. landing in a sustainably joyful

landing in a sustainably joyful life governed by awareness

poet Bianca Phipps dissects intimate family relationships in hopes of understanding conflict as a means of overcoming

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After reading through this collection

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Tooth Gaps in the Archives D.C. landing in a sustainably joyfulWinner 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