Malfunctions

Over the course of 2016, country musician Dylan Lancaster and poet-publisher August Smith exchanged typewritten poems on politics, heartbreak, memory, sorrow, dogs, and beer. From the outset, the poems were meant to value spontaneity over careful construction, free-wheeling expression over formal consideration, and lyrical observation over detachment. These poems are collected in Malfunctions, a co-written split chapbook. In January 2017, they brought the Malfunctions poems on a tour, reading alongside 14 poets in bookstores and basements across six US cities.