Smut Psalm Nava EtShalom The nerve-shaking honesty with which

The nerve-shaking honesty with which Phipps interrogates the complexity of that tether

These poems will become a song you can’t stop humming

Holding trust and distrust in a singular pen stroke

they make you smile and move something inside

Smut Psalm Nava EtShalom The nerve-shaking honesty with whichJosh Tvrdy, 2024. Winner of Button Poetrys 2023 Chapbook Contest, Josh Tvrdys Smut Psalm is a queer coming of age, equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism. Smut Psalms poems reckon with self discovery and sexual curiosityinterspersed with Church Board Interrogation interludes, which act as a dialogue between a homophobic church voice and a witty, increasingly defiant poetic speaker. Altogether, Tvrdy crafts an intimate, surreal spectacle.