Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jasmine Dreame Wagner's RINGS spirals through the alphabet with both velocity and precision. To read this poetry is to feel your pulse quicken, for Wagner demonstrates form as energy and imagination. It's not that Wagner deploys her impressive gifts to make a world that coddles or eases the reader. The centrifugal force of her perception is fierce and compels us to acknowledge an innermost lacunae. Still, this is a work of strange jubilation. Wagner renews ruin and memory so that they become responsive. Welcome to the animate labyrinth."—Elizabeth Robinson, contest judge