Pilot Press, softcover, 2025, 90 pages, 14.9 x 21 cm
Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, Andy Riley’s full-length debut, is a poem written over a year spent living in an attic in Seattle’s University District. Finding himself in socially and sexually freer environs the poet makes his way across town, commuting to school, watching the seasons, getting sick, being burned by lovers, and always keeping an eye on the city he loves.