Tag: creative resistance

Poetry Editor Candice Louisa Daquin’s novel, The Cruelty, was released by Flowersong Press in November 2025.



The Cruelty focuses on the legacy of abuse. What learned behaviors from extreme abuse and mental illness can set individuals up to be controlled and manipulated to unimaginable levels. Daquin’s debut novel highlights connections between sexual abuse, sadism, extreme pornography and domestic violence. This fictional story posits the question: What if you lost everything and someone controlled your entire existence, how would you survive?

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Poetry Editor Debbie Hall’s collection of poems, Mixtape: Marginal State, was released by The Poetry Box in December 2025.



The poems in Mixtape: Marginal States bear witness to members of our human family who exist just outside the mainstream of society. In these portrayals, we see individuals struggling with homelessness, those uprooted from their native countries, asylum seekers, and others dealing with altered or challenging psychological states—states that anyone of us might occupy at some time in our lives. The hope of bearing witness is to foster compassion and inclusion, human needs shared by all.

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