“Talking with Boys”: Finding Freedom in Forward Motion

In Tayyba Kanwal’s story collection, “Talking with Boys,” characters are in constant flux. Motion becomes an act of survival and self-definition for those whose lives are circumscribed by expectation.

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“Shedding Season” Casts a Spell

In their poems, Jane Morton finds incredible strength and beauty in being cracked open, shedding what no longer serves in order to become something new.

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“A Shift in Emphasis”: An Interview with Poet Erin Hoover

An interview with Erin Hoover on her latest collection of poetry, “No Spare People.”

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“Down Here We Come Up”: A Tale of Growth, Reconnection and Late-Blooming Coming-of-Age

Author Sara Johnson Allen shines a spotlight on the racial, political and social power dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border, and throughout the U.S., in this story of motherhood and strained familial love impacted by systems imposed upon them.

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