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CATALOG OF LABORS

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Catalog of Labors, a meditation on the complexities of day-to-day work, is the third published collection by poet Christy Prahl. With subjects ranging from bank teller to barista, train engineer to university professor, these twenty portraits give voice to the complexities of the human spirit engaged in day-to-day production. In the end, the collection serves as a love letter to American labor and the imaginative muscle that keeps it ticking. 

Catalog of Labors, a meditation on the complexities of day-to-day work, is the third published collection by poet Christy Prahl. With subjects ranging from bank teller to barista, train engineer to university professor, these twenty portraits give voice to the complexities of the human spirit engaged in day-to-day production. In the end, the collection serves as a love letter to American labor and the imaginative muscle that keeps it ticking. 

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About CHRISTY PRAHL

Christy Prahl is an Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and the author of the poetry collections We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press, 2023), With Her Hair on Fire (Roadside Press, 2025), and Catalog of Labors (Unsolicited Press, fall 2026). A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has been featured in Poetry Daily as well as many national and international journals, including the Asheville Poetry Review, CALYX, Rattle, Louisville Review, Penn Review, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill Journal, and others. She was a featured poet on the Hive Poetry Collective podcast, and two of her poems have been set to music by post-punk musicians. She splits her time between a small workers’ cottage in Chicago and refurbished Quonset hut in southwest Michigan. 

 

  • Genre: Poetry Collection
    ISBN: 978-1-969421-02-0
    Publication: SEPTEMBER 7, 2026