Spaghettification & Meatballs | Julia Balm

Julia Balm is a poet interested in the metaphysical questions of nature and heart. She’s currently a PhD candidate at King’s College London studying outer space security and UK space policy. A recent graduate from the University of Toronto in history, art history, and creative expression, her poetry appears in The Soap Box: Volume III, the Northern Appeal,the UC Review, and in PEN International’s Creative Witnesses. After a New York childhood and Canadian bout, she currently lives in London with a small army of umbrellas and a longing for maple syrup. Spaghettification & Meatballs, published by Dancing Girl Press, is a collection of poems that blends astrophysics with consumption habits. The elaborate term, spaghettification, is the scientific term for what would happen if a human body hits the event horizon of a black hole: the body infinitely elongates like spaghetti. The duality of this theme therefore represents both the soaked redness of Italian cuisine alongside the redshift