Tea Olive | On the Transit of Our Ashes & Other Essay-Poems [MS-03]

"When the Great Acceleration is at an end who will be left to calculate the transit of our ashes?"

A collection of essay-poems written over a three-year period concurrently with a dissertation analyzing contemporary environmental literature. These hybrid poems explore the politics of climate change, the mutability of memory, and the strain of a voice learning what it can, and cannot, say.

4.25" x 6.5" / 40 pages / Published by P.S.F. in January 2026 / Covers letterpress-printed at Prairie Smoke Press in East Grand Forks, MN / Cover art and design by Kylee Danks / First edition of 100.

TEA OLIVE is a writer and teacher living in the Red River Valley on the ancestral lands of the Pembina and Red Lake Bands of Ojibwe and the Dakota Oyate.