PositiveColumbia JournalThe poems refuse to shy away from gendered and racial violence in the United States. And while of course, the specter of the current president must hover over poetry that concerns itself with the current political climate, Awkward-Rich does not name him, save for one fleeting moment ... Amidst the violence and pain of the American past and present, Dispatch is interested in moments of levity or at least gesturing toward it ... Awkward-Rich also grounds and interrogates corporal existence through a variety of poetic forms, ranging from couplets to quatrains to erasure poems ... maybe then, Dispatch is not meant to mean kill at all, rather to send something off to a destination, or for a purpose.
