The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. On earth everyone is worried about objects-getting them, naming them, maintaining them, destroying them, getting rid of them. Some people say objects will be the end of life on earth. Other people say objects will save us, if we get the right ones.

But as we reckon with these object-mediated futures, we live on an earth full of the stuff itself: fax machines, horseshoes, waves. Groceries is a guide for what to do about these objects-how to speak to them and how to listen for a reply.

Nora Claire Miller is a poet. Their first book Groceries was the winner of the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Contest, selected by Srikanth Reddy, and is forthcoming in fall 2025. Nora's work has recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, and Chicago Review. Nora is based in Western Massachusetts, where they're the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They have an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College.