Pitch Dark Anarchy investigates the danger of one single narrative with multilayered poems that challenge concepts of beauty and image, race and identity, as well as the construction of skin color. Through African American memory and moments in literature, the poems seek to disrupt and dismantle foundations that create erasures and echoes of the unremembered. Pitch Dark Anarchy uses the slave revolt of the Amistad as a starting point, a metaphor for "opposition" and "against." These themes run through the very core for the book while drawing on inventive and playful language. The poems...

Novel by Cole Lavalais. Lavalais received her MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. She has been awarded writer's residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Noepe Center for the Literary Arts. An Inaugural Fellow of the Kimbilio Center for Fiction, Cole's short stories have appeared in several print and online literary journals. Cole hosts the Voices of Chicago's Literati Salon (a salon featuring writers of color) and teaches community-based writing workshops on the south side of Chicago. She is currently at work on her second novel.

Short story collection by David Garvin. White Sun: Stories from HispanoamErica is a haunting collection of intersecting stories about good and evil in the coastal villages and jungles in the Mexican state of Yucatan. Innocence, beauty, and corruption fuels the lives of its inhabitants and tourists alike. Rich and evocative, these stories will stay with the reader long after the last goodbye.

David Garvin's stories have been published in Pleiades ("Pentecost Night"), Literal LattE ("Jersey Street"), and Zuzu's Petals ("Thuggish Cuckoos"). He has read his work at...