The Multitude

2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize co-winner

We move through life haunted by a multitude of people and places that exist only in memory, by ancestors we never knew, and by myths we’re not sure we can believe. Even our video game avatars are chased by ghosts. These poems explore spaces of everyday life that intersect with both sacred places and fantastical realms. The Multitude invites us to dwell in uncertain spaces between worlds, between the possible and the impossible.

Hannah Faith Notess is the author of Ghost House, a chapbook of poems (2013), and Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (2009). Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Slate, Los Angeles Review, and Image, among other journals. She is the managing editor of Seattle Pacific University’s Response magazine and lives in Seattle with her family.