Letters to my Dead Name by Rochelle Lee Slota

Letters to my Dead Name by Rochelle Lee Slota

Letters to my Dead Name by Rochelle Lee Slota is an easy book to love. It’s honest, dynamic, and vulnerable. It held my #TodaysPoem on social media twice, once at Instagram and once at Bluesky. Letters to my Dead Name at 68 pages feels longer in a good sense. A lot of ground and mood are covered. It’s storytelling but it doesn’t feel like it should be called short stories. Some poems are in forms such as villanelle or constrained by meter, such …