Even The Spider Keeps Records

Even the Spider Keeps Records is a collection of poetry that threads memory into survival, weaving stories of heritage, loss, hunger, laughter, and resilience. From hurricanes in Puerto Rico to childhood kitchens in the Bronx, from whispered family legacies to the blue glow of digital screens, Joely Williams captures the fragile yet unbreakable strands of what it means to live and endure.

With luminous craft and unflinching honesty, these poems explore:

• The inheritance of hunger, love, and identity

• The weight of family stories and cultural memory

• Survival through storms- both natural and emotional

• The haunting presence of the internet and our digital footprints

• The beauty found in everyday moments of care, resistance, and joy

Williams' voice is at once intimate and expansive- inviting readers to reflect on their own archives of memory, their own webs of connection. For anyone who has ever wondered what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what endures, this book reminds us: nothing is ever truly lost.

Even the Spider Keeps Records is poetry as archive, poetry as survival, poetry as proof.