Links to my favorites:
Everything so far:
“January 2025” | New Words Press | March 2025
“Soon” | The Bitchin’ Kitsch | July 2024
“Cicadas” | boats against the current | August 2023
“everything we need” | underscore_magazine | May 2023
“Tennessee Law SB3| underscore_magazine | May 2023
“For [Redacted]” | Bender | May 2023
“See You Next Time” | Adelaide | April 2023
“Gay Transgender Sex Opera” | Pink Disco Magazine | March 2023
“Morris Reviews: Lilly’s Bar” | Morris’ Zines | 2023
“Every Job, a Different Gender” | Healthy Rich | April 2023
“Fat Camp” | Insider | 2023
“Child Cartoonist” | Morris’ Zines | 2021
“Life of an Honors Playwright” | DePaul Honors Blog | 2021
“Sustainability in Resorts” | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Frontera Grill Sustainable Dining” | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Cow Diets & Carbon Emissions | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Green Certifications” | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Chicago’s Urban Farms” | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Review: Farming for the Future” | Green World Alliance | 2021
“Meals & Snacks for Finals Week” | DePaul Honors Blog | 2020
“Library Cookbooks” | DePaul Honors Blog | 2020
Poems for Employees:
In his debut chapbook, Poems for Employees, Morris McLennan explores alienation under capitalism, free will, and yearning. After a sad year of office work, McLennan felt compelled to articulate labor in all of its complexity, as both delicate and violent. There is nothing more poetic than the office. And the office is the center of the universe — of all friends and lovers and moments of introspection.
With mundane, sarcastic, and straightforward voice, McLennan outlines the emotional absurdism of being a worker. Through character-focused verse and prose poems, Poems for Employees paints the story of suffering through a job while falling in love with life.
Available for purchase here.