Alana Solin ’14 HCI April 2016 Leave This Song Behind features the best poetry submitted to Teen Ink magazine and the TeenInk.com website over the last five years. The pieces in this anthology were chosen because they were so powerful that they stood out from the...

Not even Lake Peigneur, an idyllic corner of Iberia Parish, LA, is immune from the deadly effects of the illegal drug trade.

When blood from two dead bodies is found pooled between rows of sugarcane in a field near his home in Franklin, LA, public defender John Clark, III, finds himself entangled in far more than a straightforward criminal defense of the accused.

Drop the Act, It’s Exhausting! is one woman’s call to all women to embrace the imperfections in their lives.

Miriam Sagan is a poet, essayist, memoirist, teacher, and founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books whose most recent novel, Black Rainbow, is set in the 1960s and told from two points of view.

First-place winner of the 2012 Poetica Magazine chapbook contest, Star of David is a collection of poems by Rick Black that emerged out of a visit to the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection at the Gelman Library of George Washington University.

The Short Side of Paradise is an account of the 25 years Natalie Beaumont spent in Santa Barbara, CA, a seemingly wealthy community in which the cost of living and the high cost of housing cause many people to struggle financially.

The debut recording by the jazz drummer Steve Johns is aptly titled “Family”, as the impetus came from the realization that his son, Daryl Johns ’14, would be leaving home soon.

For four decades, Peter Balakian’s poetry has received critical acclaim in the United States and abroad for its inventive language and its forays into history. “Ozone Journal” is the most accomplished book of a distinctive American voice.