Find Me in the Void, by Isaiah Alexander

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Find Me in the Void is a poetry collection about what remains after everything else falls apart. Isaiah Alexander writes toward healing, heartbreak, and the echoes of the past that never quite fade. Through raw, rhythmic verse, he unpacks the weight of family, faith, masculinity, and queerness. Each poem is a small reckoning with love and loss, identity and inheritance. What begins as a confrontation with grief slowly becomes an act of resurrection. Alexander traces the line between hurt and hope, exploring the body as both battleground and sanctuary. His poems pulse with intimacy and memory, revealing how survival often means learning to forgive the versions of ourselves that didn’t make it this far and living with the version that did. Both a confession and a reclamation, Find Me in the Void is a debut that refuses to look away from pain but instead transforms it into something sacred. These poems do not ask to be understood, no, they beg to be felt. Isaiah Alexander is a Black, gay poet weaving memory, myth, and madness into verse. Raised in Texas, he writes from the in-between—where grief softens, love haunts, and poetry heals. His work has appeared in Boudin Magazine (McNeese Review), Cozy Ink Press, Ribs Magazine, Everscribe, Moss Puppy, and Driplit Magazine.