Sensitive to Temperature seeks out the precariousness and sensitivities of language, as well as the fragilities of the world it represents. These are eco-poems that experience time on a human and non-human scale, from the movements of rock to the sources of rivers.

Serena Alagappan received her A.B. in comparative literature and creative writing from Princeton University in 2020. She then studied social anthropology and literature at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She has edited poetry for the thirtieth annual Mays Anthology and the Oxford Review of Books. Her poems have appeared in The London Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, the Colorado Review, and elsewhere.