A half-submerged island is the setting of a love story “not meant for land” in "When Water Became Blue", Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sweetly wanton novel about women’s desire. Brought to shore by her partner and child, Anaïs, a... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult she was raised in went out to meet alien angels and instead... Read More

The is much to gain from African knowledge, not least an understanding of how one’s ancestors can bless a life. We learn as much from Nigerian poet Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, a PHD candidate in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.... Read More

From June Road Press, a literary micropress, and queer Cleveland writer Mary Simmons, "Mother, Daughter, Augur" opens a realm where femininity, mythology, and Victorian ideals of beauty hold sway and wolves prowl. At Bowling Green State... Read More

English is but one of the thirty languages that Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry has been translated into from his native Polish—a fact that won’t surprise anyone familiar with his mindbending takes on what others take for granted. The... Read More