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Olio by Tyehimba JessWith ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind Americas blues, work songs, and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co opted, and

"Shall I talk of our childhood and/ all the times you silently/ stared at the summer leaves/ and tried to imagine

In June of 1929

humor and embodied candor

Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom

HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world

reaches toward love

hopefully temporarily

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright

they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears

radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core: stories of the poet’s immigrant childhood spent in their family’s Chinese restaurant

and revelatory fashion—poems that mesmerize with sheer velocity and telling pauses

Glenn Ligon

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