Author Statement: Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in...
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Nancy Takacs is a poet in love with places, desert areas once home to ancient seas in the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and bodies of water, like Lake Superior, and the ocean she knew as a child growing up in New Jersey. These are personal poems with se...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. IN OUR BEUTIFUL BONES traces various stages in the poet's journey as an immigrant from India who makes a new life in the US, and her encounters with racism and otherness. In it she explores her Bene Israel roo...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Con Cellini. Venezuela is a country in crisis. The economic crisis has produced hyperinflation and prices have risen by more than 6,000%. Millions of citizens do not have access to basic health care and adequate...
Fiction. As members of the wild, wandering generation raised on rebellion find ourselves growing older, who do we now understand ourselves to be? Revolution may be in our souls but our lives are now affected by illness, financial concerns, careers t...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Short Stories. Jews being Jewish: that's the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses' new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of THE MAN WHO ...
Poetry. Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In her book, WHEN ANIMALS ARE ANIMALS, Betsy Johnson refuses to be "the quietest person in the world." She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary s...
Poetry. Author Judith Kunst's writing has been compared to the playground game of tetherball: words and ideas fling out to the outer edges of the known yet also stay anchored in the real. Poems in THE WAY THROUGH take readers forward and backward in...
Poetry. Women's Studies. WHAT IS IN THE BLOOD is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and '70s with a bipolar mother. The book describes a girl's early childhood and adolescence from having a vibrant mother—to li...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. How the narrator of AMATEUR HUSBANDRY manages to maintain a sense of calmness and well-being as he deals with the rather unruly and chaotic "natural" world is remarkable. Married to a yellow horse of Xantip...
Poetry. The poems in Chris Green's EVERYWHERE WEST stand in the light and dark of family life and are bowled over by the beauty of fatherhood. Like a novel, the poetry asks over and over, "What's worth living for?" The book also explores living in A...
Poetry. In "One Less River," Terry Blackhawk follows Hafiz's injunction to "Greet yourself / In your thousand other forms / As you mount the hidden tide and travel / Home." Hafiz, through this epigraph, serves her well. The book journeys through lov...
Poetry. What if your death was born with you when you were born, your shadow twin, and walks around with you wherever you go, to be released only when you die? What if fear mice run down your spine in the hospital, and then make a movie where the hi...
Poetry. In ENGLISH KILLS AND OTHER POEMS, Monica Wendel challenges and explores the norms of adulthood. Her speaker, teetering on the edge of marriage and pregnancy, weaves together the real world and the dream world while trying to understand what ...