Praise for Tilt:

Morgan Stephens has gifted us with poems that pulsate on the page like beating hearts, mirroring our own. Her words paint a shifting dreamscape, as gorgeous and terrifying and hopeful in its despair as life itself. In her words are the courage to capture something of our precarious reality.

—Leta McCollough Seletzky, bestselling author of The Kneeling Man

There exists a “violence in the stillness,” a slant in the urgency of the voice, that is a call to attention and an invitation to face the fallout of Long Covid together. Morgan Stephens' poems aren't exactly optimistic or even hopeful, but they are resolute. Ultimately, you might tilt, but you won't break. These poems are to be applauded.

—Ágnes Cserháti, poet and editor

Morgan Stephens’ TILT pierces with language that is raw, unflinching, brave and assures that the historical and human happenings of COVID-19 are enshrined. As this exquisite collection unfolds, there is struggle and surrender; devastation and restoration, and while often inconsolable it is filled with hope. Each poem in TILT is a generous offering that traverses an unruly body and a disquieted soul that ultimately irradiates the disease of Long Covid with courage and grace.”

—Stephanie Renèe Payne, educator, author, and life coach