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You Cannot Save Here

You Cannot Save Here

by Tonee Mae Moll April 2025 In Print

Winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize 2025

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Winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, You Cannot Save Here is a collection of poems about how we live when each day feels like the world is ending. The poems ask what we do with the small moments that matter when so much around us—climate disaster, gun violence, pandemics, wars-makes these days feel apocalyptic. The book is a bit speculative and a bit confessional. It’s queer, punk, and woven tightly with cultural allusion-from visual art to video games, pop culture to counterculture.

Tonee Mae Moll was interviewed about You Cannot Save Here. Read the interview.

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  • ISBN: 9781941551493trade$18.95Official on-sale date: April 22, 2025

Meet the Author

Tonee Mae Moll

Tonee Mae Moll holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She is an assistant professor of English at a Maryland community college and teaches in MFA programs across the state. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. Her poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, and her poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden Award and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize, with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

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