All of This Matters: Poems, 2018-2025 is a collection of poetry spanning seven years of writing by Kira Stevens. Bringing together previously published poems, newer work, and pieces originally written for spoken word performance, the collection documents the development of a writer and her voice over time.
The poems explore growing up, relationships, family, grief, mental health, memory, identity, mortality, and the search for meaning in everyday experience. Humor and absurdity appear alongside more personal reflections, while recurring interests in mythology, nature, spirituality, and the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated things develop throughout the collection.
Rather than presenting a single moment in the writer's life, All of This Matters preserves work from different periods and perspectives, allowing the changes in style, subject matter, and understanding to remain visible.
The collection includes work previously published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, alongside poems appearing in book form for the first time.
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