How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave

＂In How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Maya Salameh explores the intimate relationships we have with our devices, speaking back to the algorithm that serves simultaneously as warden, data thief, and confidant＂--

Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a former National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets. Salameh currently serves as community organizer for Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. She is the author of the chapbook rooh, and her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, The Rumpus, ANMLY, and Mizna, among other publications.