Microchimaera by Jeremy Luke Hill is a chapbook of poetry published by Baseline Press that uses the image of maternal microchimaerism to explore themes of adoption and fostering. The cover art is by MJ Gordon. The book was designed and created by Karen Schindler.
Microchimaera was the winner of the 2025 pbNichol Chapbook Award. The judge's citation, from MA|DE and Kevin Spenst, reads,
“Stunningly strange and fantastically complex, the sequence of Jeremy Luke Hill’s Microchimaera twists personal parenthood and creaturely biology into a single poetic helix. Obsession begets repetition, and mundane life reiterates into myth, in a multi-headed song of blood in which “past lives die always, trail their dead selves / like angels of history trail refuse of time, / sloughing off dead cells and empty eggshells.” These are poems to appreciate on a first reading, discover on a second, and learn from in all subsequent reads.”
