“I tend to avoid writers writing about writing, same with poets. Along comes Samantha Padgett who throws the macrocosm of astrophysics into the mix and the equation changes.” - Judges of the 2023 Saguaro Poetry Prize Featured Publications i dream my dad dies and no one finds him climate change but make it about me An unnamed essay in which the world ends, but I'm told everything is okay My mother tells me my poems should rhyme