When asked to provide a one-sentence synopsis of her book for “The Next Big Thing Interview,” Sandra Lim selected a quote from Kafka: “A cage went in search of a bird,” she says.

In honor of National Poetry Month, our staff put together a list of 12 poems, stunning, mighty, & nourishing.

Daniels’ Wedding Pulls is a collection rooted first and foremost in place, that place being New Orleans.

Part of the So to Speak mission is to recognize that no work is produced in a void apart from experience. That what we produce is inextricably connected to who we are and the lives we live.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Water & Salt is one of the most gorgeous renderings of the Levant I’ve ever read.

These works are my way of understanding, healing, and resisting.