Document Type
Honors Project
Publication Date
5-10-2026
Abstract
Flinging across continents, age gaps, and early adulthood’s romances, Return Address: Poems is a travelogue of queer desire. Its autobiographical poet-speaker landscapes their devotion with both lithe humor and interior reckoning: beloveds blur, poems decompose, and love morphs into assault. Among the dizzying terrains of Milwaukee, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Driftless region, response itself—or, as the collection posits, “returning the address”—is the throughline. “How many of these flares / have I shot toward the rotten coin of moon?” I ask. “Many,” Return Address: Poems answers across three sections of fragmented lyric, zesty sonnets, and postcards.
Level of Honors
summa cum laude
Department
Creative Writing
Department
English
Advisor
Melissa Range
Recommended Citation
Greene, Billy, "Return Address: Poems" (2026). Lawrence University Honors Projects. 227.
https://lux.lawrence.edu/luhp/227