Posts by Adele Elise Williams

July 23, 2025 | Interview

The Dead are Still Our Community: Adele Elise Williams interviews Anthony Thomas Lombardi

Adele Elise Williams

Poet, activist, and educator Anthony Thomas Lombardi absolutely slays the page in his debut collection murmurations from YesYes books. It is a collection steeped in survival and song—with the iconic Amy Winehouse at its center, the patron saint of the collection, Lombardi revels in variations of doomed beauty, over and over, until there is nothing left but sacred stain.