with fun illustrations by Adrienne Barman

trying to make linear sense of what is

Jasmine has always butted heads with Tori Young

two weeks before his nineteenth birthday

alone with the terrible truth of what she has done

Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection Beekeeping with fun illustrations by AdrienneThis anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther King called the "beloved community," a place where we see each other as the neighbors we already are. Healing the Divide urges us, at this fraught political time, to move past the negativity that often