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The Ship to America by Richard D. Bank

The Ship to America by Richard D. Bank

The Ship to America is a work of fiction based on the experiences of an extended Russian Jewish family fleeing oppression in Ukraine during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Seventeen-year-old Dave...

A Pre­cise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort

A Pre­cise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort

A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect...

A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis

A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis

No grief should be privileged, and no grief should be silenced. A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet Owen Lewis’s experience in the year following Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on...