A dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Doré Watson interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures with high magnitude and deep resonance. These poems are musical and sing in a different register for Watson in her fifth collection. Ellen Doré Watson is the author of four full-length collections...

Through a lens simultaneously historical and political, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to personal and collective experiences of migration, motherhood, and immigration's complicated notions of home. In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and state. Through a decolonial poetics, giving name to everything in her path from the Italian...

Only those worth feeding will board the Universe ships - bloodlines won't matter in the new world.Government has melted into globalism. Fights for dominion over the remaining natural resources of a dying planet have shaped the population into a loose class system obsessed with creating the ultimate human-animal. Tensions between rival population groups have grown violent. Karine is young and entering the adult phase of her banal social obligations....

Her mother's suicide. Thyroid cancer...followed by a preventive mastectomy. Alcoholism. Depression. Valerie Walsh was Shattered to the Core. Within just a few years, she experienced such extraordinary loss, pain, and trauma that it seems miraculous she was able to make it to the other side. How did she make peace with her past and reclaim her future? In her candid memoir, Valerie reveals what it took for her to overcome her personal hardships and...

The Aquarium is a collection of poetry documenting the lives of an aristocratic British couple in the middle of the 20th Century. Told in two parts, we first meet Charles, aged, crippled and left alone in his crumbling stately home — reflecting on his life and his marriage to beautiful Alice, who we meet in part two. The Aquarium moves through the decades, across this life and the next. Interweaving themes of grief, loss, after-life, mental illness,...

Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief-it’s shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion. From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child's single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career...

« Je ne me maquille plus, ça ne sert à rien, c'est trop vulgaire. Je ne rigole plus avec les autres, c'est interdit. Je ne choisis plus mes vêtements, pas la peine, tu le fais pour moi. Je ne vois plus mes ami(e)s, je n'en ai plus besoin, toi tu es là. Je ne sors plus, à quoi bon de toute façon? Je passe mes soirées rien qu'avec toi. Tu as fait de moi celle que tu voulais, ton pantin. Moi j'accepte, ça me va, de toute façon, je ne ressens...

Olivia Foster hasn't felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is particularly intoxicating, so much so that Olivia not only comes to accept Kara's morbid habit of writing to men on death row, she helps her do it. They sign their letters as the Resurrection Girls. But,...

When a catastrophic event happens, your life changes in an instant. It may take some time for you to arrive in your new reality. Your life can take on a surreal quality. You may be in shock, you may feel like you are living in a haze, everything around you seems distorted. You may be unable to concentrate on anything, everything may be hyper clear, or moving in slow motion. Your thoughts can explode in a million directions. There is a fracture in...

Amigo, the oldest dog on the ranch, isn't doing well but Abby doesn't want to believe it. Although he is retired, Amigo is more than a service dog, he is her friend. When the unthinkable happens, Abby gives up the thing she loves most: caring for the ranch's dogs. Can Abby find a way to move past her grief and keep Amigo's memory alive forever? At Second Chance Ranch, the Ramirez family cares and works to find homes for all kinds of animals on their...