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Catalog of Labors is the third poetry collection by Christy Prahl, offering twenty portraits of American workers across professions both visible and overlooked. From bank teller to barista, train engineer to university professor, these poems reveal the emotional lives we conceal in order to function at work. The collection stands as a clear-eyed love letter to labor and the imaginative force that persists inside daily production.

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Christy Prahl is an Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and the author of the poetry collections We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press, 2023), With Her Hair on Fire (Roadside Press, 2025), and Catalog of Labors (Unsolicited Press, fall 2026). A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has appeared in Poetry Daily and numerous national and international journals, including the Arkansas International, Sugar House Review, Asheville Poetry Review, CALYX, Louisville Review, Penn Review, and Salt Hill Journal. She has been featured on the Hive Poetry Collective podcast, and two of her poems have been interpreted by post-punk musicians. She splits her time between a small workers' cottage in Chicago and a refurbished Quonset hut in southwest Michigan.

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