What We Hold On To: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On - Softcover

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project is an independent poetry press and editorial project based in Austin, Texas. It grew out of The Chaos Section, a long-running opinion site founded in 2012, and was created as a way to expand that work into poetry-bringing the same attention to lived experience, civic life, and cultural pressure into a different form.Rather than publishing individual poems on a rolling basis, the project focuses on curated collections. Each chapbook is built around a central theme and shaped through editorial collaboration, with an emphasis on clarity, craft, and emotional honesty.Our first collection, Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age (TCS Press 2025), gathered voices responding to political pressure, resistance, and the erosion of democratic norms. Our second collection, What We Hold On To: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On (TCS Press, 2026), turns inward, exploring how people endure, adapt, and remain connected in uncertain times.All chapbooks are released free to read on the site (thechaossectionpoetryproject.com), with free high-quality digital downloads available. Print editions are offered for readers who want a physical copy.We welcome a wide range of poetic approaches-free verse, formal, experimental, personal, political... what matters most is care for language, attention to form, and, most importantly, a willingness to engage honestly with the world as it is.