Mothers Ask ‘May I’ Too
There was a time in my life when I wanted to climb the corporate latter, at least, the organizational one. I was willing to do this because it meant more money. Meanwhile my wife...
Category: Book Reviews
Wake Brings the Big Sleep to Life
Wake by Laura Madeline Wiseman transforms the grim reaper into a female, a cart driver with a passenger, and a character of intrigue. She is both a gentle friend and an aggressive enemy; she...
Art History Meets Satire
Artist Statements of the Old Masters by John Seed combines art history with wit and satire to create a work of art that is a funny yet sober statement on today’s art world. If...
Hourglass Museum and the timeless art of life
Hourglass Museum by Kelli Russell Agodon appears to be a book of poetry based on art — and it is, but it is also so much more. It is a book about life and...
American Galactic lands close to home
American Galactic by Laura Madeline Wiseman is a fun, well-written book that takes issues and events of everyday life and gives them a sci-fi twist. The cover of the book, an image of martians...
The Sounds of Dust
Dust by Dave Buracker is a chapbook of poems that are simple, accessible, and informal, yet written with such a punch in the music of language, they are wonderful to hear as each poem...
The Bluebeard Myth Gets a Red-Hot Makeover
Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience by Laura Madeline Wiseman is a wonderful take on the Bluebeard fable. For those of you who don’t know the story, it is essentially a Jack...
Fighting Malaria With Poetry Gets The Win
Malaria: Poems by Cameron Conaway may be the most important book published in 2014. Conaway, an ex-MMA fighter, tackles Malaria through poetry. Conaway educates his readers on a plethora of issues by beginning or...
Backwoods and Back Words is Forward Progress
Backwoods and Back Words by Nicole Yurcaba is a unique collection of words that is fresh, inspiring and heartwarming. Yurcaba intertwines poetry, photography, and slices of memoir into a vision that is fun to read...
The Reverse Tree
The Reverse Tree is a thin volume of six personal essays by Bengali poet and translator Kiriti Sengupta. There are poems scattered throughout the book, maybe ten or fifteen of them, which serve to...