Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetryampampamp10Prize Ryann Stevensons Human Resources is a sobering andampampamp10perceptive portrait of technologyampampamp8217s impact on connection and power.Human Resources followsampampamp10a woman working in the maledominated world of AI designing women that donampampamp8217tampampamp10exist. In discerning verse she workshops theampampamp10facial characteristics of a floating head named ampampquotNiaampampquot who her boss calls ampampamp8220hisampampamp10typeampampamp8221 she loses hours researching ampampamp8220Juneampampamp8221 an oddly sexualized artificiallyampampamp10intelligent oven and she spends a whole day ampampamp8220trying to breakampampamp8221 a femaleampampamp10selfimprovement bot. Theampampamp10speaker of Stevensonampampamp8217s poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation even asampampamp10she endeavors to solve for these problems in her daily work.