“To be fair, we were broken for a very long time. And I’m not saying we’re both perfectly functional, wholly healed adults—gods, no. But I think you see healing as a straight line, and any symptoms mean going backward, but I’ve found healing is more of a …squiggle.” Orok star defensive tank on the Philadelphia…
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
“Lock up your kids, Sebastian Walsh might come along and tempt them to fall upon the sacrificial altar of student debt.” Sebastian Walsh: twenty-four. Grad student at Lesiara University in the Mageus of Evocation program. Human. The first of his family to go to college rather than the military (and it goes over at family…
Innamorata by Ava Reid
“Absolute reality was too much for any human to bear.” Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order…
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan
“I’m here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.I’m here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.” A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries…
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
“They were all gone. All I had left in this world was right here. Mongo soon started to snore. I could feel Donut’s warmth against the back of my neck. She breathed softly, oblivious of all that had occurred tonight. This, I thought, this is my family.” The ratings and views are off the chart….
Nine Persimmons by Kerry James Evans
“…and I love you, reader, who knows so little about me —who tries not to, but can’t help but judge me for how I say these things so causally— how my drawlreappears like azalea blossoms in spring, thenpoof!Gone with the first rain.”~The World In Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and…
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
“i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?” Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply…
I Have a Home, There is a We by Mohammed Khelef Ghassani
“I hear the voice of the ocean wavesAnd rushing windThey sing to me their poetry, a sweetness in my earsIt comes to me by name, my country Zanzibar…” ~ The Voice of My Country I Have a Home, There Is a We, whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to…
2026 National Poetry Month Recommendations
I am aware that many of my readers are not in the United States, but 2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of our National Poetry Month. First started in 1996, it allows us to celebrate poets as they are integral to our arts and culture. I struggle to talk about poetry, but I really like to…
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton
“All may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology. Cheating is practically one of our scientific principles.” Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain,…
The Great Book Wyrm 