Line your pocket with stones

KJ Janeschek
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:46:03 PDT

This thesis is a collection of poetry that explores gender, sexuality, trauma, suicidal ideation, and the end of the world. Most of the poems are set against an Alaskan backdrop, but some venture into other landscapes--such as Midwestern fields and subtropical cities. The collection is divided into four sections, each loosely corresponding to a season and its affective register. The narrative arc of the collection traces the speaker's distance to death as they are pulled both closer and further away in a world that seems to be increasingly full of decay. The poems in this collection are often formally inventive or visual in nature, inviting readers to read them both left-to-right and in other, less familiar directions, as well as using white space to evoke image and movement.