going out & being normal: poems

In his debut poetry collection, going out & being normal, Vaughn M. Watson examines a broken society. Pairing prose poetry with more traditional verse, Watson’s speakers travel from Beijing to Brazil, they fence with future lovers and dissociate on trains, they see themselves in lockdown celebrity photoshoots and TSA bins. This collection, broken into four distinct sections, takes us on a journey through the mind of an overthinker and chronic observer who just wants to get things right, for once. Runner-Up for the Press 53 Award for Poetry.