The inspiration for this chapbook was an email message from God advertising exciting inspirational ideas for chapbooks. “Do you have a minute to chat(book!) about the Divine Afflatus? God loves creators because creators are like little Gods, but without the big white beard and the God Hat, and also you turn into corpses. Cute!”
Then God’s Message pointed out that “spam” and “pantoum” kind of go together. So this was my moment! Panspam? Tansoum?
Or! Spamtoum!
Fuck your dad jokes, God. And your stupid beard and hat. I will not be part of this holy fucking phishing scheme.
So I deleted Him.
Which explains a lot, if you think about it.
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer. He’s published a bunch of poetry books and chapbooks including the 2023 above/ground titles Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom and brand-new Spamtoum. He’s probably not as funny as he thinks he is, God knows.
