Marjorie Agosín’s essays positively ache at moments: when she’s describing what it’s like to make home in a liminal space; as she calls out across time to memorialize family members who were brutally ripped away. And yet... Read More

Accessible, well guided, pragmatic, and impactful: to describe Brendon Abram’s "Teaching Trauma Sensitive Yoga" is to describe an ideal manifestation of its subject matter. Drawing on a deep well of experience as a trauma-sensitive... Read More

Rowan Black, a practicing witch who’s also a police detective, is being hunted by friends and allies alike in the second volume of "Black Magick", Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott’s noirish take on spells and sorcery. Much of "Black... Read More

What are poets tempted by? Rhyme. Alliteration. Experimentation. Obscurantism. The list is much longer, but those four lead a great many lesser mortals astray; one of them, painfully so: experimentation. And yet, Brenda Hillman reminds... Read More

Tara O’Connor delivers a cautionary tale for the high school set in her graphic novel, "The Altered History of Willow Sparks". Willow Sparks, known to her friends as Willy, is a teenager who grapples with popularity, gym class, and... Read More