I Can’t Breathe

Art makes life’s events presentable and almost bearable. Nancy Dillingham’s I Can’t Breathe holds that reality in Fate’s recognition, plus the promise that living breathes and cries for space and breadth. I Can’t Breathe is a triumph for justice and Love. -Shelby Stephenson, poet laureate, North Carolina, 2015-2018, author of Slavery and Freedom on Paul’s Hill

It surprisingly helps and comforts to have my recurring ominous low-hum of morning dread captured in your [poetry].

-Bruce Craven, author of Buena Suerte in Red Glitter

It’s as if you described my every weekday morning for the last few months. Thank you for your profound sensitivity.

-Allen Mendenhall, editor, Southern Literary Review

Thanks for making a space for grief during this time.

-Kathy Nelson, 2019 winner, James Dickey Poetry Prize