Promise/Threat

Jonah Mixon-Webster’s sophomore poetry collection, Promise/Threat, delves into the shadowy boundary between dreams and reality, capturing a journey of troubled rebirth rooted in the poet’s experiences in Flint, Michigan. Structured in three parts, the book explores themes of internal conflict, violence, love, and self-discovery through surreal and haunting imagery. With adaptable poetic forms, it presents a vivid, unsettling portrait of life in modern America, where hope and peril coexist.