In the 1980s, twelve-year-old Matthew Cooper is experiencing some strange and terrifying events at an old rental house where he and his family have recently moved. TVs and radios click on and off in the middle of the night. Odd shapes are drawn in the foggy glass of a bathroom mirror. No one can explain these things, and as their encounters become ......
The George Garrett Fiction Prize: Judge's Choice, selected by Kaveh Akbar Eight jeweled hauntings . . . the disappeared and disappearing, the once-longed-for, the self, the empty door . . . each story immerses you in an intimate, propulsive life that will lodge in your bones. Devastatingly comedic and heartbreaking, together, this collection ......
Memory is a luminous centerpiece of Distributary, now presented on its own as a handmade, limited-edition chapbook. Each of the 126 copies-100 numbered and 26 lettered-is signed by the author and individually crafted by hand. Presented as a standalone work, Memory invites readers to encounter the poem in its own right: expansive, finely wrought, ......
Lambda Award-winning poet Remi Recchia's second full-length poetry collection chronicles the speaker's journey with alcoholism, gender identity, and faith. Weaving between drunkenness and grace, loss and desire, the book asks us what a man looks like and what he'll do when the lights go down. While Addiction Apocalypse is located in many ......
Winner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar "We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by," William James writes. In About, Above, Around, fifty prepositions reveal the subtle syntax of our inner lives, offering a new yet ancient vocabulary for charting how feeling moves ......
Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. The collection flickers through and locates in distorted realities, loss, and gentling. By haunting the past, the author reweaves and reorients against a continual vanishing. Ordinary situations begin to seem ......
Everything Is Water is an open letter to caregivers as the speaker grapples with her partner's life-threatening illness, pregnancy and new motherhood, and marriage. Growing up on the Virginia coast, the speaker knows the water's danger and allure--asks, what is beneath, what has control in so much open and unknown space? The speaker continues to ......
Holy the Body wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee and Jesus's tears in a trick of light. At once dark and humorous, these poems confront the religiosity of the US and explore the experience of faithful doubt, as God himself "goes under the knife." The poems in this manuscript take the ......
Steeped in a fabulist version of the American South, The Iridescents highlights how the LGBTQ community transforms everyday acts of support and survival into miracles, redefining sainthood and spiritual history through the lens of queer resilience and fierce joy. A trans man visits a donut shop with his ailing dog to pray for advice. Genderqueer ......
