A prolonged exercise in grief and respect for the dead, "My Cemetery Friends" gathers poetry and prose pieces that are rooted in a singular place. Set in a relaxing, green pedestrian refuge surrounded by a noisy urban environment,... Read More

An angry woman’s enduring pain is soothed by her introduction to a loving girl in the fabulistic children’s book The Tale of the Wicked Old Woman and the Very Nice ’Beast’ of Crouch End. Lance Lee’s meandering fable The Tale of... Read More

Please don’t try this at home—penning fifty gothic memories in individual poems as a memoir—unless you’re comfortable being known as Father Goose, live in a tree house, write for the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and... Read More

A confused owl looks for answers in all the wrong places in this charming picture book about fitting in. Owl feels all mixed up; he doesn’t understand why he’s the only one who can’t sleep at night. He seeks answers among the... Read More

An astronaut suffering from insomnia is stalked by a presence aboard a space station in the ominous graphic novel "Station Grand". Michael returns to Station Grand for a long solo assignment. His only company is a computer, which tracks... Read More

A heroic knight who’s feared by those who don’t understand him receives his long overdue rewards in the triumphant fantasy novel "The Knight and the Butterfly". In M. Francis Schmidt’s heartfelt fairy tale "The Knight and the... Read More

Do perps read poetry? Is poetry’s perpose to take aim at the malevolence in all of us? Jordan Pérez would like a word with you. An expert in online safety and childhood sexual abuse prevention, she has been published in Poetry... Read More

Two aliens show off their cooking skills in Leila Boukarim’s entertaining graphic novel-cum-cookbook "Zips and Eeloo Make Hummus". Zips and Eeloo, natives of the planet Zooglebeep, have been on Earth for six days. As “Certified Human... Read More