Romance and intimacy are not pathways to anyone’s happily-ever-after in the poems of "The Thorn Key", whose entries are seamless in reimagining fairy tales in the context of feminist values. Folklorist Jeana Jorgensen’s muscular... Read More

"Feel Me" is a quite personal collection of poetry and art that records steps toward healing from trauma. In Aily Carranza’s exuberant poetry collection "Feel Me", poems and artwork are therapeutic modalities for healing. Using poetry... Read More

In Jonathan Bockian’s captivating historical novel "What Was Forbidden", a skeptic is murdered, his sister tries to bring his killer to justice, and a community is changed forever. In seventeenth-century Venice in the Jewish ghetto,... Read More

Mythical beings plot long-awaited revenge against each other in Shauna Lawless’s atmospheric fantasy novel "Daughter of the Otherworld". The mythical Tuatha Dé Danann and their descendants have waited over one hundred years for their... Read More

Neurodivergence helps when it comes to exploring liminal places in the diverse, wondrous short story anthology "Divergent Realms". The innovative works in the dazzling short story anthology "Divergent Realms", edited by Riley Odell,... Read More

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

Its poems functioning as antidotes for trying times, "The Usefulness of Hippopotamus" is a good-natured collection. Vincent J. Tomeo’s quirky poetry collection "The Usefulness of Hippopotamus" confronts pandemic-era limitations with... Read More

Told from a child émigré’s perspective, "Grappling with Ghosts" is a timely memoir about international displacement. James Harvey’s insightful memoir "Grappling with Ghosts" is about his nomadic, chaotic childhood and the... Read More