Chloe Caldwell/Diana Salier

Caldwell’s lush essays about adolescent rites of passage from her debut book, Legs Get Led Astray, could not look more different from the stark poems in Salier’s newest collection, Letters from Robots. A part of the Internet Generation, à la Tao Lin, Salier writes poems that are concise, introverted and often unpunctuated. What ties these two writers together is the way in which both women’s work naturally straddles the fine line between humor and heartbreaking humanness.