“I would like to highlight the privilege it was for MORIA to feature six poems by Heidi Seaborn from her recently-published book, Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do). Seaborn’s poems appear as six distinct markers throughout the issue, like suns that scatter light outward onto the surrounding ground. “ ~Alyssa Pieprzyca, Editor-in-Chief

I kept walking around with the line “A plane falls from the sky” and then the rest of the poem suddenly appeared and just as suddenly, it was published. My thoughts are with the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight. A reminder that life is fragile, time is precious and action and accountability are urgent and necessary.

Just a reminder that love can be easy, that we can fall in love with every day!

A cultural commentary…in the very hip @Drunk Monkeys

“L/anguish” is about my son Jack’s Crohn’s diagnosis. He was incredibly brave at the time and we all stepped up to match his tone. I wrote “Crash” after a family conversation where we each had a different memory of a car accident we had as children. It starts with my mother’s voice as the accident is happening, then we hear the voice of the man that drove his truck into us, then mine, my two sisters’, my brother’s and finally my mother comes in again with perspective.