Electric ArchesElectric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewings narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstancesblues legend Koko Taylor is a tall tale hero; LeBron James

” a young reader writes a fan letter to a writer she admires

provocative essays on Whitman and Emerson

He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleaguered but determined farmers

She lives in Detroit

and to be loved

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or mundane

eros and politics

Barely thirty years old

a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley

He is open to mystery

The History of the Dolls is a breathtaking fable of chorality and control with many a perspectival shift