CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL is Youssef Alaoui's debut full-length poetry collection, which explores human relationships between individuals, cultures, races, and genders. He deftly utilizes archaic tone
Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Youssef Alaoui's short-story collection, FIERCER MONSTERS, is concerned with the symbology of letters and the word as invocation, contrasted with the futility of langu
THE BLUE DEMON:A novella in the tradition of Nineteenth Century literature. The crew of a Spanish merchant ship discovers they have a stranger among them: a Moor with an odd nickname and worse yet, de
Formento’s surregional verses convey the thrill and tragedy of New Orleans; the loss of a mentor-hero, second sight of the poet’s father in a dream, an animal inventory of Bayou Barataria, the joy of
