Poetry. Art. Women's Studies. Collaboration. Artwork by Mariela Yeregui. Mullin's poems are spare investigations into what it means to collaborate and to remember. They address what comes of the neurological, emotional, and social mandate that is both collaboration and memory, and in their brevity, offer small moments of singular present tense. "Michaela Mullin's MUST is appropriately titled in every sense of the word—from the tender ironies and quiet insistences, to poems that create their own likely logic through her singular sensibility—this is a collection that should not be overlooked. While the poems often find their source in the intellect, the cleverness doesn't compromise their fervency. These are poems that resonate not only in the mind, but in the heart and the body as well."—Teri Youmans Grimm, author of Dirt Eaters "Michaela Mullin's short poems offer pitch-perfect inflections of the multi-voiced conversations we hold in dialogue with not quite inanimate objects: art works, fairy tales, previous poetry. Each poem finds a way to interrupt itself—signaled sometimes through punctuation, and sometimes through words tumbling over each other—but quickly the intrusion enters into a discourse, generating a rhythm and creating a duet. Birds and wedding rings, a fugitive lost object, paintings, videos: Mullin conjures them forth in unexpected combinations and they move forward together, now a single entity. In her poetry, each new composite resonates clearly—but the affinity is only momentary; she dissolves these relationships just as quickly as they came together. But something new lingers, shifting the way we configure our world. The pleasure of the initial reading intensifies in re- reading."—Lenore Metrick- Chen, author of Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900 "Michaela Mullin's poems mesmerize. With a light but sure touch she moves from childhood reveries to her adult fascinations... The aphoristic poems in must combine heart and mind with determination and playfulness."—Steve Langan, author of Meet Me at the Happy Bar

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Literature & Fiction

Mullin, Michaela

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Poetry

Nomadic Press

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. QUIP (Queers in Print) is an anthology of writing by young queer authors. Through a series of five workshops, seven teenagers from the Bay Area constructed a community of art, acceptance, and revolutionary empathy through writing.

QuIP: An Anthology of Young Queer Writing

Mottley, Leila

Thomas, Charlie

Deane-Grundman, Fiona

Gerwein, Zeke

Terry, Oliver

Weaver-Anderson, Sunari

Poetry. California Interest, African &amp; African American Studies. Contributors include Samuel Getachew, Nicos Hubbard-Riley, Elijah I. Hynson, Damion Evans, Charles Hall, and Daniel Summerhill. BLACK JOY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK BOY POEMS is an unapologetic, unrestrained, and defiant celebration of culture, friendship, and community. This compilation of poems by black boys from Oakland is an elaborate and heartwarming guide through the intricacies of what it means to be young, black, and undoubtedly alive in today's day and age.

Black Joy: An Anthology of Black Boy Poems

Nomadic

Poetry. California Interest. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Michaela Mullin. BEHIND OUR NAMES is a collection of poetry that deep dives into self discovery by asking difficult questions about family, community, and the histories that sculpt us. The poems within resist definition and earnestly ask the reader to listen in more complicated, attentive, and nuanced ways as the authors grapple with the complexity of cultural identity and self identification. This is a love letter to the places we call home--the places we have left--in order to reclaim and rename ourselves.

Behind Our Names: An Anthology of SWANA- & Muslim-Identified Teens

Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. Young Adult. We are a melting pot of stories and experiences just as much as our people are. MULTIVERSE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF YOUNG LATINX WRITERS is a collection of works from six brilliant young Latinx writers. While we may deal with recurring themes within our communities, not one of us has the same story or experience. The poems within this anthology explore topics such as belonging, society, family, and most importantly, what it means to be us.

Multiverse: An Anthology of Latinx Writers