Empires of the EverydayBy: Anna Lee Popham Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Longlist An ambitious and wholly original poetry collection that examines the ways that life is confined and sometimes defined by the city and the ubiquity and invisibility of state violence. The poems in Empires of the Everyday give voice to the many you who move through a cityone that resembles many modern citieswhere plywood shelters are demolished in pandemic winters. Where everyday violence is