Syncretism & Survival: Forums on Poetics (2018): Locked Horn editors present a compilation of diverse writings from working poets, including a selection of poets who appear in Read America(s), that explore the relationship between the experience of America(s) and poetry. Contributors include Elmaz Abinader, Elizabeth Acevedo, James E. Allman Jr., Sandra Beasley, Derrick Weston Brown, Jericho Brown, A. Vincent Ciardiello, Briceida Cuevas Cob, Karla Cordero, Cynthia Cruz, Kyle Dargan, Meg Day, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Tarfia Faizullah, Lauren Jensen-Deegan, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Mariama Lockington, Davis Maduli, Nick Makoha, Sally Wen Mao, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Erika Meitner, Michael Mlekoday, David Mura, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Craig Santos-Perez, Michael Sheehan, Matthew Shenoda, David Shook, Brian Teare, Truth Thomas, Sarah Vap, Phillip B. Williams, and Monika Zobel.

"The wide-ranging and provocative pieces collected in Syncretism & Survival clarify some of the many errors and misconceptions in the conversation about race, nation, and the politics that try to define them. At the same time, the sophisticated, fearless work included in this anthology pushes the dialogue into a more robust, aware, and 21st century way of thinking about our myriad identities and communities. This is a formidable and necessary compendium, one that offers new perspectives on and definitions for some of our most problematic cultural and social constructions."           —Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke