A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...

Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route", has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history an...