Category: novels in verse

BLOOD WATER PAINT

  “She has to ask herself—and women have asked themselves this question for centuries—would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something?” —Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough This debut…

Forest World by Margarita Engle

Guest Post by Padma Venkatraman In Forest World, Young People’s Poet Laureate, Margarita Engle, once again demonstrates her mastery over the verse novel form, wielding it to speak eloquently of the need to protect our environment. Told through the eyes of…