Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I Author|Judy Stoffel It is easy to forget

It is easy to forget we all have feelings failures triumphs and regrets

Fuhrman toasts to the cyclones that blow through our days and our nights

and Saint Paul poet laureate Carol Connolly

and generally making shenanigans with corpses

The government no longer has the resources to repair escalating damage from extreme weather

Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I Author|Judy Stoffel It is easy to forgetMud Songs Elsehere Book I was selected by Patricia Killelea for the 2026 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. Mud Songs Elsehere Book I, by polyglot poet, literary translator, and Fernando Pessoa scholar Patricio Ferrari, is a lyrical and archival journey through languages, inheritances, and crossings. This visionary collection by Ferrari reveals a multilingual poetics of arrival, attentive to histories of migration, loss, and renewal. Book I of the