Rob Sanders

Feb 1, 2024 | sites.macmillan.com | Carole Weatherford |Rob Sanders |Faridah Abike-Iyimide |P. Clark

“A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney deserves all the love! McKinney is a pioneer in race-related pay transparency and cool, Black girls with superpowers.” Kayah Hodge Marketing Assistant, Tor Publishing Group “Denene Millner's One Blood is a book that I haven't stopped thinking about since I read it last summer. This multigenerational saga is the absolute perfect book club pick and is based on Denene's own childhood and adoption story.

Aug 4, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rob Sanders |Jonathan Hillman |Susumu Higa |Brian Michael Bendis

Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings. Surely, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4372-6DC writer Trujillo (the Blue Beetle series) and newcomer cartoonist Hastings (Be Gay, Do Comics) interlace a provocative graphic biography of 18th-century military strategist Baron von Steuben with poignant calls to embrace hidden queer history. After lying about his age to enlist in the Prussian army at 14, von Steuben embarks on a career of social climbing aided by further embellishments.

May 13, 2023 | havokjournal.com | Rob Sanders

by Rob Sanders _____ I miss the empty places With nothing in between The ghost-haunted ruins Of forgotten Eastern kings Where you see goats tremble As they hop along the cliff And lizards scamper madly For the shade beneath its lip I miss the dusty places Where the rocks are smokin’ hot Where the sun glares off the sand That’s painful bright all day The summers are so hot You’re too dried out to piss And the winter months are so cold That your spit can freeze mid-air This is what I miss When...

Apr 9, 2023 | havokjournal.com | Rob Sanders

Crying in the nightApril 9, 2023 by Rob Sanders by Rob SandersCrying in the nightTrying to hearThrough the whiskey and the tears. I’m tired and can’t sleep. Men talking long dead, buried deep. I’m really tired, so fucking beat. I still hear the war nearbyThe hammering of guns like carpenters on crackBanging on the walls of my mind. This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 20, 2019U.S. Army Spc.

Feb 1, 2023 | havokjournal.com | Rob Sanders

by Rob Sanders_____Do you remember the splash of red high and to the right? Above our heads in the ravine? We wanted to look,Dreaded to look. Hated to look. The little girl, dead and desecrated? Raped, pillaged, and beaten for her father’s faith? Allah Akbar!Her father’s side was not theirs. Her father’s faith was not ours. Her father would not play. Her father could not pay. “Men” of God found her. “Men” of faith took her.“Men” of peace. Allah Akbar!Sand and blood make mud brown.