The morning of the first day of kindergarten Lining up by last name (of course I’m last) I feel sick (I cut my own hair the night before) My mom kneels down and comforts me Telling me I am confident, ...

Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, illus. by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy, Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-90349-8 Elephants are the revered subject of Zimmer's lovingly crafted works. In one, a jubilant ...

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

Having never missed an issue in more than a century, the Sewanee Review is the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the country. Begun in 1892 at The University of the South in Sewanee, ...