Two poems by Epephanie LaBoy: "We promise if you hear / of our early death in America / then know it was America that killed us."

Two poems by T.R. Hummer: "But I admit I was attracted to the absence / That appeared to me, if only for the paradox / Of absence appearing."

We are reading Poetry, Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction through June 15th (CNF and Flash Fiction will cap at 40 submissions)

In The Broken Buddha, the newest poetry collection from Johnny Cordova, the author’s spiritual life is a lens through which he writes.

Three poems by Molly Fisk: "You already know my grandmother counted / flamingos. She had no time / for stupid questions."

Three poems by Jay Rogoff: "What can she mean, “I want to go home”? / She can’t for her life remember where."

In both concept and practice, we ask a great deal of the field, making it an adaptable metaphor in poetry and art: the open field, the blank page, the blank canvas. The field suggests potential, so…

Three poems from Dorianne Laux: "What if each word / cost you a dime or a dollar? Would we be more / careful, more prudent, more precise?"

Driving Home after Christmas with the In-laws My daughter whimpered in the backseat, “I’m not feeling well,” and vomited. Tears and saliva spattered her My Little Pony pants. The wailing of a world…

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

On rare occasions, I come across a book that truly resonates with me, with storylines and narrator enquiries that echo my own, and characters whose dispositions harken back to my own family members, f...

Publishing literary and visual art concerned with the impact of violent conflict beyond the combat zone.

Two poems by Maxine Chernoff: "It's hard to believe one can write a poem, paint a canvas, cultivate a garden with all the ugliness out there."

Two poems by David Kirby: "We’ve lost the world, you say, we’ve lost everything / except the poem that is a cathedral..."

Three poems by Laura Grace Weldon: "Not long before she died, the family tremor passed to me / in the strange way genes bestow gifts."

A powerful debut novel about war, immigration, and home Celebrating the power of literature to rescue a life from despair, Koan Khmer is the story of Samnang...

Two poems by Johnny Cordova: "This mountain has gotten inside me. / I hear it rumbling through my hollow bones. / It rises in me like a dark sun..."