Lately, YA has become extremely popular. “Twilight” is no longer the only mainstream plot of choice. In fact, the casting of “The Hunger Games” film is debated in the pages of “Entertainment Weekly,” and “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival with the “Between Two Ferns”* interviewer of the [...]

A YARN preamble.  A few months back, we read an unusual submission:  a series of poems written collaboratively by Jessy Randall and Derek Rowley, who met on the staff of their high school literary magazine, “Galaxy,” in the 1980’s.  Jessy had submitted to us before (in fact, her “O Oreo” was part of the inspiration for our Candy & Cookie Poem Drive), and we’d encouraged her to submit more work.  The collaborative poems, which you can find in the Poetry section this week, were the happy result. [...]