Current talk about the "new normal" and "going back to normal" has some questioning what normal means. What does normal look like? Is anyone or anything ever truly normal? Is normal something we should strive for? And if so, why do we revere the exceptional? Do we always need to return to the status quo, or can we learn and grow, taking the good parts of our past as we move forward into a new future? In these pages, you'll read poetry, nonfiction, and fiction pieces exploring ideas of norm...

Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book AwardRise is collection of prose and poetry exploring the concepts of change, renewal, and rebirth. When things change, we experience a variety of emotions-from anger and fear to courage and hope. There is struggle and strife but also the opportunity to rise from the ashes and create, grow, and love.In these pages, you'll find stories and expressions of joy and sorrow about love, friendship, family, marriage and divorce, loss and gr...

In art, chiaroscuro is a technique that explores the interplay of light and dark through stark contrasts. In the same way, this anthology explores virtue and vice and the interconnectedness between these two ends of the morality spectrum. A virtue taken to excess transforms into vice; a vice in the right circumstances becomes virtuous. Via poetry and prose, Chiaroscuro will take you on a journey through light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil, and the spaces in between.