Shawnte Orion is the author of Gravity & Spectacle (a collaboration with photographer Jia Oak Baker from Tolsun Books) and The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks). He is an editor for rinky dink press and his poems have appeared in Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Sugar House Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has recorded several poems for a new split 7inch vinyl record with SF band Sweat Lodge on the Related Records label. The new record and book can be purchased at https://batteredhive.blogspot.com/p/connect.html