Twenty-one writers reflect on the concept of home and its polyvalent meanings. "As my obsession with narratives bloomed & I shifted into my role as managing editor at New Rivers, I realize that I built another family here—a new home in the narrativ...
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“A well-written, powerful examination of America’s racial legacies” —Kirkus Reviews “Artress Bethany White has written a beautiful book that shimmers with bravery on every page. In tackling race, she interrogates and informs, startles and prods, an...
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Annette C. Boehm's new book, THE APIDICTOR TAPES, rather than concentrating on the hackneyed hum of things as so much of recent poetry does, homes in on particulars. Each poem is fused by a precise imagery ...
“Samuel leads in contemporary Nigerian poetry with a burst of songs that are not only genuine and ignited but also illuminate tenderly the many intricate layers of being human. His is an imagination attuned with nature, bearing for us a robust room ...
Antipodes was borne from the discovery that a single line could be so fervently rich and meaningful both in its organic delivery and in its reflection. Antipodes are a form of poetry which can be read forward or backward word by word instead of line...
Fiction. California Interest. "Reality, meet the fierce imagination of Rosaleen Bertolino, who presents the kind of people most of us overlook, take for granted, fear, shoo away, or pity, and makes us see how it feels from their perspective. These s...
Fiction. Reflecting as always his deep respect for classic science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, DAYENU AND OTHER STORIES collects 22 of Jim's new tales. Bluesmen whose thoughts become real, chatty philosophic spiders, revenant cars, thawed-o...
Poetry. Edited by Robert Vivian. "There's something about ecstasy that scares us. It scares me. Perhaps it is the fear of losing control, or the fear that maybe we never really are in control, that all the learning, and reading, and studying in the ...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. "Mandy-Suzanne Wong does something far beyond 'giving voice' to animals and the artists that record them. She listens: quietly, carefully, truthfully. And the animals speak for themselves. Listen, we all bleed is a powerful...
Literary Nonfiction. Haitian American Studies. Critical Race Studies. Narrative Inquiry. Women's Studies. Haitian Earthquake Narratives. "YOU MAY HAVE THE SUITCASE NOW reveals a powerful, original, unapologetic voice in the post George Floyd world. ...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "JD Scott's queer-divine poems are both exorbitant and restrained, a decoction of 19th century urges regaled in the 'lace and stain' of diction, harnessed in stanzas, belted into the Escalade of lyric and driven through a 21...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. HALF-LIFE OF EMPATHY interrogates the complex human/non-human relationship in the Anthropocene. Rooted in the author's deep fascination and scientific knowledge of ...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. "Artress Bethany White has written a beautiful book that shimmers with bravery on every page. In tackling race, she interrogates and informs, startles and prods, and implicates us all—forcing ...
Fiction. AMERICAN FICTION, an anthology of postmodern stories, explores the human experience and grapples with loss in its truest form. Within these stories are revelations of identity, childhood, faith, relationships, and innocence lost. American F...
Poetry. Women's Studies. In powerful, invigorating verse, Erin Slaughter relates the struggle of finding oneself in the modern day. In the span of a year, she falls deeply in love for the first time; establishes a strong, close-knit group of friends...