My Soft Response To The Wars is the debut poetry collection from Canadian Poetry Slam Champion, RC Weslowski. With a clown’s eye and a trickster’s lip, these poems work to rewrite the trauma of childhood sexual abuse with the scissors of surrealism and absurdity. Love and how to survive its loss and transform it into something we can carry forward—no matter how wretched, weird, and ridiculous it may seem in the aftermath of betrayal—is the driving principle in all these poems.

RC Weslowski is the 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Winner, the 2013 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, and a two-time finalist at the World Cup of Poetry Slam in Paris, France. RC's work has been published in CV2, Arc Poetry Magazine, Oratorealis, and Quills. RC has also been anthologized in Red Reads First by Sargent Press, and The Nights Are Twice as Long by Goose Lane Editions.

RC is a poet, a podcaster, a broadcaster, and an organizer of festivals and other events. RC's first book, My Soft Response To The Wars: poems of resilience, survival, sacrilege and love, was published by Write Bloody North in the spring of 2021.

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