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What to Count

A lyrical exploration into the personal and political conflicts and identities that frame a life.

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Enough to Lose

Character-driven stories of small-town folks struggling to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.

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Dear Department Chair

A wellspring of wisdom from Black women leaders in higher education for the next generation.

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Infertilities, A Curation

Visual art and writing on the immediate and lasting emotional toll of infertility.

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The Second Stop Is Jupiter

A calling into being of a surrealist African American poetic mythology.

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Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters

Politics and paradigm shifts underlying contemporary retellings of fantastic traditional Chinese tales.

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Will & Grace

The creation and legacy of the sitcom that transformed queer representation in American television.

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.

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Nothing Special

Lively illustrations depict the close bond between grandfather and grandson during a child’s summer visit to the South.

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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes

A Gilded Age industrialist - surrounded by scandal - becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.

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Paper Valley

The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and an unrelenting journalist—resulting in the polluting companies paying for the $1 billion, 20-year cleanup.

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The Lyric Essay as Resistance

Resistance and representation manifests in the subversive genre of the lyric essay.

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Divining, A Memoir in Trees

Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees.

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Divining, A Memoir in Trees

Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees.

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Psych Murders

Experimental writing that takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care.

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stilettos in a rifle range

Poems about the joys and struggles of complex, contemporary life—and heartbreak.

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Enough to Lose

Character-driven stories of small-town folks struggling to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.

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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes

Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.

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What to Count

A lyrical exploration into the personal and political conflicts and identities that frame a life.

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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

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