Award-winning writer Joelle Barron looks back at history through queer eyes in their second poetry collection.Excerpts from a Burned Letter places the experiences of historical figures and fictional characters in modern contexts—and makes their queerness explicit. This collection highlights the circular nature of time, demonstrating how even in a post-marriage equality world, queer experiences and queer histories still face erasure.From the perspec...

On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould":"The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly says: 'Under a spell so the wrong ones can’t find it, / So can’t get saved,’ as Robert Frost said." — Jeffery DonaldsonAbsorbed in the small, everyday rituals of existence, this remarkable collection of poems tears open the fruit of life and scoops out beauty and jo...

Felicity has never heard of Cinderella, and her life has been nothing like a fairytale. Her mother—who she must call Madam—has kept her locked in a dank basement since she was a young child, giving her nothing but two meals a day and regular beatings. Her only comfort comes from reading, and from the little bit of light that streams in through her small window.Miraculously, Felicity manages to escape the hell of Madam’s creation, and she finds more than she ever expected: Timothy, ...

55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators.Contributors include Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison®, David Morrell, Laird Barron, Linda Rodriguez, Charles de Lint, Hilary Davidson, Joe R. Lansdale, Joelle Charbonneau, Reed Farrel Coleman, SJ Rozan, and Alison Arng...