Welcome to our Poetry issue! Among our reviews in this issue: first-generation Lebanese American poet Hayan Charara's These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit; and Susan Jackson's In the River of Songs, whose poems gild everyday experiences and unbearable losses with spiritual significance. In the picture-book bio The Gardener of Alcatraz by Emma Bland Smith, illustrated by Jenn Ely, an incarcerated counterfeiter discovers his green thumb. Plus, author and editor Chris Martin discusses his desire to create a community of care and inclusion in launching his poetry imprint, Multiverse.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness