In Andrea Bobotis’s "The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt", Judith is the keeper “not just of the Kratt family’s valuables but of its stories, too.” The murder of her brother, Quincy, is one story that the family never quite faced.... Read More

A collaboration between photographer Ryan J. Bush and his mother, poet Virginia O. Bush, The Singing Wire pairs their work in order to “peer through the veil of the ordinary into a contemplative, non-verbal, timeless place beyond... Read More

Written to honor youth activists Janna Jihad Ayyad and her cousin Ahed Tamimi, Naomi Shihab Nye’s "The Tiny Journalist" uses poetry to blend stories and speak truth to power about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Amid unfathomable... Read More

It’s the 1990s, and June is making her way through high school in Marshalltown, Iowa. Life moves at a laconic pace, spiked with the adrenaline of teenage discovery. But in Brandi Homan’s "Burn Fortune", what June discovers about the... Read More

"Love in Winter" reaches for the art of poetry to clothe a father’s naked grief. William Edmund Evans’s Love in Winter: Missing Ryan collects poems written in the long season of grief. As its speaker navigates the first winter after... Read More

Adam Truman is overwhelmed by a shift that he’s perceived within himself, and he’s spent the long winter unable to identify what’s going on. Desperate to break free of his internal and external monotony, Adam takes drastic action,... Read More

In Michael Carroll’s Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories, Key West is “a beautiful town … the last bastion, the place of the just-misfits.” This collection of eight short stories follows the people who go there looking to... Read More

“Like anyone on the uphill side of middle age,” newscaster Abigail Waite had “secretly harbored a hope that she was unique in all the world and the day would never come for her.” But she’s just been diagnosed with stage III... Read More