[Dis]Connected presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other; offering their poetry to the next person who tells a story based on the concept presented to them. With poetry, stories, and art, this is a one-of-a-kind presentation of connection and collaboration by Alicia Cook, Tyler Knott Gregson, Courtney Peppernell, Noah Milligan, Komal Kapoor, N.L. Shompole, Caitlyn Siehl, K.Y. Robinson, Raquel Franco, and Wilder Poetry.
Firstly I'd like to thank Netgalley for the ARC of this book for an honest review. This book is full of brilliant authors that I only ever knew as poets but in this anthology that changed. I thought the idea behind this book was genius. Each author wrote a poem and then all there names were put in a hat or something similar. The name they picked out the hat they would use there poem to create a short story. The results were amazing. If I could have I would have read this in one sitting. They poems were all great but the creativity that the author took from each poem to create mind blowing short stories just really made this book a 5 star read for me. The range of topics covered is huge and I love how people from all across the world can come together to create works of art. Due to the formatting of the ARC it was hard to know who wrote what and the title of each story but my favourite stories have to be the one about River in San Juan and the one about Skylar and Norah! They were all so different yet all hit me. The twists and turns kept me reading. Grief, culture, parenthood, childhood and so much more. I definitely recommend everybody to read this book and I intend to buy the first one and a hard copy of this one too! Amy x
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