Jessica Morey-Collins eloquently mixes multiple worlds, multiple moments, all intertwined in her latest chapbook.

Sandra Cisneros’s first novel, The House on Mango Street, sold over six million copies and won the American Book Award.

In Doubtful Taste opens with a playful collection of poems about the pandemic, not making light of it but allowing us to breathe a little humor into the trauma of it all. The major accomplishment of this collection is its clever use of rhyming verse when examining things like our obsessions with dating apps, coffee, social media, and selfies….

University of Montana professor, acclaimed poet, and river guide Chris Dombrowski has written a candid, nonlinear memoir. The River You Touch is a personal guide like no other through Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley—a lyrical, visually rich, once-in-a-lifetime river trip, one in which photos alone can’t capture the magic.

Pushcart Prize and Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach uses silliness to address the profound, in a similar way to the beloved childhood book Where the Sidewalk Ends but with an adult twist. Amid the humor, though, this set of nature essays, The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums, often brings on a contemplative pause. At times, Leach mixes animals and politics but not in an environmental activist style.