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Book Review: The Rainbow Infinity Club Series by Jen Malia

Looking for middle grade books with neurodiverse characters? I have a series perfect for kids looking for fun, authentic portrayals of neurodiverse characters. I cannot say enough good things about Jen Malia’s Infinity Rainbow Club series. Illustrated by Peter Francis, the series plans to follow five neurodiverse kids in their school’s “Infinity Rainbow Club.” Each…

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Poetry Review: American Sentencing by Jen Karetnick

***Previously published on Quail Bell Magazine on May 28th, 2016. Suffering is a shared burden throughout the world, but it’s a rarity when a poet can capture every angle of persevering through everyday tortures. Jen Karetnick’s American Sentencing is a riveting and “intense examination of the physical body and the various indignities and ailments from which [the…

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Poetry Review: All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman

***Previously published on Quail Bell Magazine on March 20th, 2019. As a native Southerner, I appreciate authentic approaches to our unique genre of music, folktales, and other art. The South has many rich and many complicated legacies. All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman, winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, is a fresh new take…

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Poetry Review: Small Crimes by Andrea Jurjević

***Previously published in Quail Bell Magazine on March 23rd, 2017. It often seems our opinion on war changes, but as the video game franchise Fallout often mentions, “War. War never changes.” Perhaps thanks to both my American education and being born in the mid-nineties, I feared my ignorance of the Croatian War would cause me to miss…

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