Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia,The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret’s agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory world rife with hazards, both real and imagined. Her cosmopolitan poems careen through diverse geographical territory—from haunted postcolonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua, the still Danish interiors of Hammershøi and the serial killer stalking Long Island Sound—and engage everywhere with questions of violence and loss, erasure, and extinction. Charged with Holland-Batt’s mercurial imagination and swift lyricism, this unsettling and darkly intelligent collection inhabits an uncertain world with a questioning eye and clear mind, unafraid to veer “straight into turbulence.”

Nickelodeon takes on the tween audience - with Zoey 101, starring Jamie Lynn Spears, l'il sister of "the Brit-ster!"


Zoey 101: Zo' Cool lays out the welcome mat to PCA: Pacific Coast Academy. It's a story of "firsts"-- Zoey Brooks' first day as a member of the first class at PCA to include girls; her first struggles with her "could the be more opposite?" roommates, and her first tryouts for the formerly all-boys basketball team.
Zoey's the girl all readers want to be friends with-she's Zo' Cool!!