Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage’s license and becoming something more than a root worker
Laxmi never paid much attention to the tiny hairs above her lip
As the ground is pulled out from under her
No matter what challenges he faces
All Different Now is a joyous portrait of the dawn breaking on the darkest time in our nation’s history
When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Literary Fiction Laura hopped a portal toA dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence. In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Awardwinner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean playsCaliban and Sycorax from? The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from? Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of? Othelloto mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black