Pantoum Stress Disorder by MNJames

Pantoum Stress Disorder explores the pantoum as a material metaphor for trauma, and how they both repeat themselves whether you like it not. Exploring her history with sexual and relationship violence, drug use, and other mental health woes, MNJames seeks something close to closure in her debut chapbook. MNJames (All Pronouns) is a concrete poet and editor of FATHERFATHER MAGAZINE. Their work has appeared in ANMLY, Thimble, Word For/Word, Sinister Wisdom, and TIMBER. When not in the literary sphere, she likes scrubbing out of Magic: The Gathering tournaments and teaching chess to elementary schoolers. They were born in Hastings, England and raised in San Jose, California. He is an MFA student at Virginia Tech. "MNJames's Pantoum Stress Disorder explores trauma in a unique way, taking full advantage of the pantoum form's musicality and versatility. The poems open with lines like 'Ponder the hitachi magic wand / so you, too, can experience the world / conceptually.' and 'and the goth was