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Soulmate As a Verb by Kelsey L. Smoot
Reviewed by Bess Cooley | Mar 28, 2026 Dopamine Books, February 2026 Paperback, 120 pages, $16.95 I had the pleasure of hearing Kelsey L. Smoot

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Anna Antongiorgi(she/her) is a poet, choreographer, and dancer. She earned her BA in English and Theatre, Dance, and Media at Harvard, followed by an MFA in Poetry at the New School. Her poetry chapbook refinding the rules of gravity(Finishing Line Press, July 2021), was featured in Dance Magazine and included in Flight Path Dance Project’s curriculum. Her original choreopoem, SUNDAY, was presented at the TADA! Theater in October 2022. Individual poems of hers have been featured in The Inquisitive Eater and Big Windows Review. She lives in Brooklyn, works as a freelance choreographer, and dances with the Brooklyn Ballet. You can find her on instagram, @annaantongiorgi.
![This is the painting called "Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse]" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It shows a stylised dancing couple in cool colors. The woman's face bears a frown.](https://gristjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/dancing_couple_in_the_snow_reverse_1989.60.1.b-206x300.jpg)
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Brenna Womer (she/they) is a queer, childfree, Latine prose writer and poet. She is the author of Unbrained (FlowerSong Press, 2023), Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and two chapbooks. Her writing across genres has appeared in North American Review, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, teaching in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.

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Katherine Indermaur is the author of ‘I|I’ (Seneca Review Books), winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize and the 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and two chapbooks. She serves as an editor for Sugar House Review. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, the Journal, New Delta Review, Ninth Letter, the Normal School, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.