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Girlhood is cracked open to glisten in Kindall Fredericks’ electrifying new collection, “I’ll Take My Body to Go”

2026 is brimming with fantastic new books, and this month's Words on the Street is here to help Akronites meet their new favorite.

Sixth Finch - Summer 2024 - Sarah Green - FORESHADOWING

Sarah Green, author of The Deletions (University Akron Press, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) Sarah Green is the…

In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,”  a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

A review of Jess Smith’s poetry collection, “Lady Smith.”