Night is this Anyway investigates the love, desire, and pain of the LGBTQ experience in the deep South. These poems move from the dazzling charm of new love, through the terror of discovering one's identity as a woman, a queer lover, to that of a parent and a writer, a survivor of "knife storms."

Robin Reagler, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz, and the UK's Best Book Award, writes poetry and essays. She is the author of Dear Red Airplane (Seven Kitchens, 2011, 2018), Teeth & Teeth (2018), and Into The The (2020). Her writing has been published in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, North American Review, and other journals. Reagler is passionate about the power of education. For 22 years she led Writers in the Schools, and in that time the organization engaged half a million young people in the joy of self-expression. Now she is an English professor at Houston Community College.