Tempe Fenn Crosby’s poetry was driven by an unabated interest in people and an unvanquished hope that the gulfs between them could be navigated by consciously understanding their surrounding circumstances. These works cover topics from... Read More

Mohammed couldn’t wait to visit New York City. He dreamed of the Statue of Liberty at night and during the day he fantasized about the grand city and all that he would do and see there. Plans were underway for the eighth grader to take... Read More

Growing up in wartime Vietnam Thienna Ho yearned for lighter skin—as light perhaps as the other members of her family. She wondered why her own skin was dark and uneven and slow to heal. After her family emigrated to San Francisco... Read More

Journey to Enlightenment: Revealed maps the territory between the individual’s desire to improve and the limitations imposed by relative poverty and outside authority. The crafted free verse is largely unrhymed covering themes from... Read More

“The truth was that Soupy was an average-looking orange striped cat with green eyes” Krause writes; yet to his young owner Molly Soupy is the handsomest cat she’s ever seen. Likewise Molly’s face always sports dirt sand or grape... Read More