The Wickedest Midwest and how to keep romantic

and how to keep romantic love alive from youth to old age

She handles Venetian ciabatta

turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs

and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks

The Wickedest Midwest and how to keep romanticA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024. Winner of the Sky Arts Award for Poetry. "[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party." Candice Carty Williams, author of Queenie An immersive epic taking place over