Gratitude List by Jarrett Moseley (Inch #58)

Description

Gratitude List is a series of interconnected prose poems that follows a group of friends in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. In poems that dive fully into the grief of losing loved ones to addiction, the intimacy of communal healing, and the challenges faced within that healing, Gratitude List portrays the everyday lives of recovering addicts and the tenderness formed between them in recovery.

Jarrett Moseley is a bisexual poet living in Miami, where he is a lecturer at the University of Miami. He is the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024). His poetry has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Baltimore Review, earned an honorable mention for the Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writer Fellowship, and been long listed for the Poetry Society’s 2022 National Poetry Competition. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Ploughshares, POETRY Magazine, AGNI, Poets.org, Baltimore Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.