What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner through a mental health crisis. Even as her work takes full... Read More

You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to... Read More

Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise... Read More

A poem by renowned twentieth-century poet Amy Lowell receives illustrative treatment in this picture book that transforms climbing a tree into a whimsical adventure. As a girl climbs an apple tree, the branches, blossoms, and fruit grow... Read More

"Bloodletting a Butterfly" is an intricate narrative poetry collection that speaks to the trauma of witnessing human pain. Alec B. Hood’s gothic poetry collection "Bloodletting a Butterfly" probes experiences of trauma. In striking... Read More

In Sébastien Luc Butler’s elegant chapbook "Sky Tongued Back with Light", art and nature symbolize conflicted feelings about queerness, religion, and grief. The line “from answer to question, question / to answer” encapsulates the... Read More

Concerned with abuse and healing, the revealing poetry collection "Shattered Echoes" catalogs personal psychological scars in a visceral, pleading manner. The specters of past traumas are filtered through the hindsight of recovery in... Read More