Announcing the winner of the 2025 New Constructions Hybrid Book Contest
My Prayer a Slit Throat by Ellen Kombiyil
A lyric visual essay, composed of erasures, collages, and military ephemera, My Prayer a Slit Throat is a timely work engaged in “erasing the inheritance of war.” Using text from the Iliad, with its startling clarity and energy, tenderness and horror, the work explores the narratives that continue to shape our conceptions of war. My Prayer a Slit Throat clears new territory for dialogue. Congratulations to Ellen, her book will be published in Spring 2026!
Ellen Kombiyil is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. Her latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024) is a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.
Tony Wallin-Sato & Jeff Knorr at Medicine for Nightmares, SF
Sat, May 03
|San Francisco
In the Presence of Absence: Poets in Response to Carcerality
Time & Location
May 03, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
San Francisco, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato and Jeff Knorr’s recent publications are in the intimate dance and response to the effects of mass incarceration. Between lived experience with the carceral system and having a loved one experiencing incarceration, their work interweaves through the broken criminal justice system and how far reaching carcerality is beyond physical walls.