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The More Beyond

by Caroline Foulke

In the revealing novel "The More Beyond", generational clashes over mental illness leave a woman feeling isolated. In Jill Charlotte Thomas’s novel "The More Beyond", upper-class society is lonely for a woman with mental health... Read More

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Sheli

by Karen Rigby

"Sheli" is a lesson-filled Christian picture book in which a sheep learns to place the good of others before herself. Deanna Danielle’s earnest Christian picture book "Sheli" considers God’s concern for people through the familiar... Read More

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Phone Ringing in a Dark House

by Matt Sutherland

The poet shares his work in any number of ways once it’s conceived, primarily from page to reader. But Rolly Kent shows us that his poems have always existed in our hearts and minds and that it is only necessary to discover them,... Read More

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Site of Disappearance

by Matt Sutherland

Sometimes the muse makes a big ask. Revisit the death of a brother, for example, and explore how that painful memory gathers momentum as one’s own son comes of age. Muses, Erin Malone knows, are expert button pushers. A Coniston Prize... Read More

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Wild Grace

by Matt Sutherland

We can never be quite sure what powers a poet draws upon, where exactly she gets her mojo. Chelan Harkin discovered it the hard way: at the bottom-most point of mental and emotional suffering she was mystically blessed with creative... Read More

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Lotería

by Matt Sutherland

Between. Not here, not there. Not this, or that. Somewhere but not someplace. Not easy to put your, wrap your, place your—but confidence, and masterful touch with language, is what makes Esteban Rodríguez a credible, incredible even,... Read More

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Each Luminous Thing

by Matt Sutherland

Care, from carry: as happens mysteriously in utero; from what was once her single-selfed existence, the poet assumes the burdens of maternity—a carrier‘s nine-month care package that stretches into motherhood and beyond. In "Each... Read More

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