SHIFT DRINKS
by Jonathon Todd
Jonathon Todd's Shift Drinks presents Philadelphia’s streets, kitchens, bus stops, hospitals, museums, and apartments through a vivid poetic consciousness. The poems surprise, reveal, and disorient while staying grounded in the poet's distinct feeling and perception. This is anarchist poetry of improvisation, of dreaming the future while caught by alienation, addiction, and the nullities of wage labor. On every page, the stakes are clear: it's the people, poetry, and the commons against the managed self and the violent rule of ownership. (28 pp. / November 10, 2023)
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Jonathon Todd is a poet, musician, Buddhist, anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor, fusing ideas about emptiness, collectivity, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others.