Poetry. African American Studies. DEAR GIRL: A RECKONING revisits the biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley and reimagines her journey through the Middle Passage to Boston. The poems are a g
Fiction. THE WHITE SWALLOW has so many things going for it—starkly memorable imagery, strangeness that feels natural to the story, the feeling that the story itself grew up from the earth like a tree,
Fiction. WE portrays the havoc that the threat of an immigration raid wreaks upon a surprisingly wide diversity of the residents of a suburban American community. Told in a series of vignettes that di
Poetry. These condensed, narrative poems all describe initial-contact experiences with alien societies and exoplanetary civilizations, in the form of summary reports from diplomatic missions or expedi
Fiction. A boy crawls through a tunnel in the Gaza Strip to bring back supplies to his family and neighbors despite the high risk of the tunnel being flooded, gassed, or bombed. On the eve of the Arab
Poetry. In language that shifts between striking lyricism and deceptive narrative directness, the poems in MIGRATION deal in the compulsions and desires that propel our lives. Migration as it occurs i
