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Multiracial people are everywhere — but so often their stories are oversimplified, overlooked, or left out of the narrative altogether. Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging (Beacon Press) — edited by Anne Liu Kellor — collects 29 voices from...

In a world where each day can bring new reasons for outrage or despair, Paul Loeb answers with stories of hope, inspiration, and raw courage from heroes of world-changing political movements. In this comprehensively updated edition, Loeb helps us keep acting for change...

Ever since the publication of his debut collection, The Man Suit, Zachary Schomburg's perfect little gems of poems have been enthusiastically greeted by readers and have inspired young writers and poets to take up the craft (they've also inspired quite a few poem-themed...

A time traveler crashes into a gay bar, and from that electric collision unfolds Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival (Fordham University Press), T.S. Leonard's dazzling debut poetry collection. Moving through glitter, ash, memory, and music, these poems follow a queer time...

In her new poetry collection, Memory of a Larger Mind (Omnidawn), Daniela Naomi Molnar sifts through memory and layered loss — planetary, cultural, familial, and personal — asking how we withstand and how we transform. These are plein air poems, written outdoors in the...

Join Lyanda Lynn Haupt, bestselling author of Crow Planet, on an enchanting journey through the avian world. In Among the Birds (Skipstone), Haupt moves intuitively from species to species, celebrating experience, memory, and the serendipity of daily life. Haupt’s signature...