Olympus Heights

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Olympus Heights</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> poets Kevin Carey and Colleen Michaels reimagine the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology as contemporary neighbors in a gated community. You know them:  overblown architecture inflated ego misplaced desire. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This collaborative chapbook offered up as farce is the result of a writing challenge between two friends (and neighbors) during one long summer of the pandemic. Each poet would assign the other a god or goddess weekly. Whether as persona blackout dialogue villanelle or Instagram post the poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Olympus Heights</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> call out the privilege misogyny violence narcissism and folly of bad neighbors of this mythic class.</span></p><p><br></p>