Violets for Sappho is Michelle Rochniak’s love letter to the tenth Muse. It is the story of a first queer relationship told through poems of various forms, including a cover letter, a table of contents, and a treaty. Violets for Sappho is an exploration of gender and sexuality and how to juggle those feelings while harboring a crush on the cutest girl in school. Violets for Sappho contains everything from references to Greek mythology to the gayest pining you’ve ever seen to the acts of self-discovery through a relationship. It is queer awakening, queer living, and queer breathing.