For weeks, you’ve stopped putting away the towels. You leave them in a folded stack on the floor beside their home closet. It’s not that you want to kill yourself today, or this year, but that you look forward to dying— you always have— in the same way one looks forward to a birthday party […]
Camille Newsom
Camille Newsom (she/her) is the author of the chapbook This Suffering and Scrumptious World (Galileo Press, 2023) and Purgatory Junkie (Main Street Rag, 2025). Based in West Michigan, Camille is an educator and land steward who weaves creative practice and curiosity into her work. Her poems have appeared in ONE ART, Terrain.org, and Southword, among others, and was nominated for Best New Poets 2025.