In Cameron Carter’s “The Silent Strike,” a mother and father attempt to make sense of their daughter’s participation in an ongoing protest. Keija Parssinen considers two relationships in “Become Ungovernable.” Martheaus Perkins takes on Shakespeare, Spiderman, race, sex, music, and learning to swimin five poems including “Shapeshifter.”

Featured art: William Sharp

These color lithographs are to be found in Victoria Regia, or, The Great Water Lily of America: With a Brief Account of its Discovery and Introduction into Cultivation (1854), a work by amateur botanist John Fisk Allen which documents his attempts to propagate the Amazon’s Victoria regia (now called Victoria amazonica) in the more northerly climes of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts. See more at https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-sharp-s-chromolithographs-of-the-great-water-lily-1854/

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