Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Jenny Odell and a cast of religious

and a cast of religious leaders

communion with others

eventually becoming head bread baker

● 1900s Cornflake Macaroons

the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision

Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Jenny Odell and a cast of religiousIn her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasily through cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with ease. This remarkable debut collection showcases Debevec McKenney's intimate,