ALT Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Cynthia Manick in a circular frame. Cynthia Manick stands in a lit archway. She's an African-American woman with black shoulder length braids. The braids are swept to the side and rest on her left shoulder. She is wearing a black v-neck shirt and a loose blue cardigan.

ALT The cover of Cynthia Manick’s No Sweet Without Brine: a collage of a black person’s face fraying into yellow and sepia leaves

ALT A grid of books: WHITE GHOSTS by Katie Hale (19), THE NATURAL HUSTLE by Eva H.D. (17), SYNTAXED by Cindy Juyoung Ok (23), and NO SWEET WITHOUT BRINE by Cynthia Manick (17). THE WEEDS by Katy Simpson Smith (19), THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Siddhartha Deb (13), HOLDING PATTERN by Jenny Xie (17), and HALF-LIFE OF A STOLEN SISTER: A NOVEL OF THE BRONTËS by Rachel Cantor (3x 01-19). FERRYMAN OF MEMORIES: THE FILMS OF RITHY RANH by Deirdre Boyle (3x 87-15), DIGITAL STRUCTURES: DATA AND URBAN STRATEGIES OF THE CIVIC FUTURE by Wendy W Fok (22), DANCE WORKS: STORIES OF CREATIVE COLLABORATION by Allison Orr (21), and THIS ISN'T GOING TO END WELL: A TRUE STORY OF A MAN I THOUGHT I KNEW by Daniel Wallace (16).

ALT Works in music, visual art, film, comics, and drama: Frank Carlberg (3x 15-23) and Roxanna Amed’s album LOS TRABAJOS Y LAS NOCHES and John Liberatore’s album (17, 20), CATCH SOMEWHERE, Kristen Joy Emack’s (21) photobook COUSINS, a DVD of Juyi Mao’s (23) performance work “Uplift Action,” FINGER CAKES: A COMICS ANTHOLOGY, VOL. 1, with works by Peter Rostovsky (16) and Abbey Luck (16), and Cordelia Lynn’s (18, 22) play SEA CREATURES.