Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetryampamp10Prize Ryann Stevensons Human Resources is a sobering andampamp10perceptive portrait of technologyampamp8217s impact on connection and power.Human Resources followsampamp10a woman working in the maledominated world of AI designing women that donampamp8217tampamp10exist. In discerning verse she workshops theampamp10facial characteristics of a floating head named Nia who her boss calls ampamp8220hisampamp10typeampamp8221 she loses hours researching ampamp8220Juneampamp8221 an oddly sexualized artificiallyampamp10intelligent oven and she spends a whole day ampamp8220trying to breakampamp8221 a femaleampamp10selfimprovement bot. Theampamp10speaker of Stevensonampamp8217s poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation even asampamp10she endeavors to solve for these problems in her daily work. She attempts toampamp10harness control by eating clean doing yoga and searching for agedefying skinampamp10care though she dreams ampamp8220about the department that women get reassigned toampamp10after they file harassment complaints.ampamp8221 With sharp lyrical intelligence sheampamp10imagines alternative realities where women exist not for the whims of men butampamp10for their ownwhere they become literal skyscrapers towering over a world thatampamp10never appreciated them.Chilling and lucid Humanampamp10Resources challenges the minds programming our present and future to considerampamp10what serves the collective good. Something perhaps more thoughtful and humanampamp10Stevenson writes ampamp8220I want to say better.ampamp8221