Family stories and regrets drive a woman away from home and pull her back again in the affecting literary novel "The Pale Flesh of Wood". In Elizabeth A. Tucker’s moving novel "The Pale Flesh of Wood", a woman grapples with her... Read More

Dogs and their amusing antics are the star of this energetic picture book, which traces human-canine relationships through time. J. S. Silverstein pairs comedic storytelling with subtle history lessons in "My Dog Is a Hog!", a picture... Read More

In Poupeh Missaghi’s literary novella "Sound Museum", an enthusiastic curator celebrates the aural elements of torture. Before an exclusive tour of her museum, an Iranian curator delivers an opening speech to the invited foreign... Read More

For queer Latinx Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, raised in El Paso by Mexican immigrants, piecing together a suitable cloak of masculinity is as much about survival as it is identity. His brother’s detainment and deportation serves as a... Read More

Justice is out of the purview of poetry, unfortunately. Otherwise, the ancestors of the ninety-six Lenapes killed by rogue Pennsylvania militia men in 1782 might read this collection and find some much deserved peace. That Denise Low... Read More

Poets come equipped. Where mortals lower their lids in terror, poets play a game of stare down—making hay through the pain, lemonade of loss, fun of fear—never ever looking away. Steely Andy Young lives in New Orleans after a... Read More

In "The Other Altar", Nicholas Gulig reminds us there is always another way, word, time to discover in grief a never-known strength. The author of North of Order and Orient, Gulig is the 2023–24 poet laureate of Wisconsin. Thai... Read More