Smut Psalm Nava EtShalom Much like a hot air

Much like a hot air balloon

and resilience shape us into who we are

Simpson combines a dynamic ability to manipulate language with humor

These poems will become a song you can’t stop humming

but here I am

Smut Psalm Nava EtShalom Much like a hot airJosh Tvrdy, 2024. Winner of Button Poetrys 2023 Chapbook Contest, Josh Tvrdys Smut Psalm is a queer coming of age, equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism. Smut Psalms poems reckon with self discovery and sexual curiosityinterspersed with Church Board Interrogation interludes, which act as a dialogue between a homophobic church voice and a witty, increasingly defiant poetic speaker. Altogether, Tvrdy crafts an intimate, surreal spectacle.