Stuart Kestenbaum’s ‘Voices of the Future’ comes out this month, as he wraps up his five-year term.

I look up and behold the ornately ornamented ceiling of Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, a place I’ve never actually been. I look down and my legs have vanished, replaced by a single black pole terminating into a tripod. I look all around and find every other seat in the hall empty, though I’m told that at […]

Fifteen years have passed, but the blank page is still seared into Jermaine Fowler’s memory. As an adrift student at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, Fowler was reluctantly filling out college applications when he faced an essay prompt about outlining his ambitions. His brain froze, and his eyes welled up. “I realized,” he says, […]