“Today Is an Unholy Suite” by grace (ge) gilbert begins “Every poem I’ve never finished is called TODAY / Which is the only thing left.” These poems are alive and present. They meditate on common, daily life and the extraordinary that can be contained in a day, “Love is a body / of yes // It opens me.” Although this is a short chapbook of just under twenty poems, gilbert’s voice is unique and unmistakable and will stay with you well beyond today.

In 2019, after teaching in Rochester-area schools and in Ghana, West Africa, grace received their New York State teaching certifications in Childhood Education (1-6), Special Education (1-6) and English (7-12). They graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Geneseo with a BS in Education and a BA in English: Creative Writing, also winning the 2019 Mary Thomas Award for Poetry.

grace’s teaching experience is broad: creating and teaching art curricula (including intensive ceramics, watercolor, and mosaic courses), organizing and teaching STEAM Camps (including video game creation, robotics, and elementary physics), and working one-on-one to design individualized programs for children with learning disabilities and other needs in public schools. they’ve worked as an instructor in the Writing Center at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in need of writing help, and as a professor of First Year Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, where they taught a multimedia course on AIDS literature and representation.

grace graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022 with an MFA in Poetry. since then, they’ve taught hybrid art and writing courses at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and the Poetry Foundation.

grace is the author of three chapbooks, and has published poetry, essays, and art in the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, the Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, the Offing, the Adroit Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Diode, TYPO, ANMLY, and elsewhere.

they are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all, and offering workshops that inspire community and creativity.

Produced in 2024 as a limited edition of 100. 28 pages. Staple binding.