Travel provides an opportunity for author Brian Oard to reflect on life. In Flying Hung-Over, he describes his round-trip journey from Kansas to New York City, where he celebrates New Year’s Eve and gets a hangover. His book is... Read More

One of the lesser recognized attributes of a novella is the small investment of time needed to dive in, devour, and then be done. If it’s not memorable, no big deal, the experience took less than an hour. But if the short novel is... Read More

In Portuguese passagem is a journey and Pass(t) agens is a book of Portuguese poetry whose title plays on the plural from of the word. This journey does not contain all of the guideposts that one would expect like page numbers and a... Read More

I know my bed’s for sleeping on / But sometimes I slide under… / I don’t know how others feel / But I sure hate that thunder. A clear night is eclipsed by a volatile weather front. When the sound of thunder jars young Mandy awake... Read More

To read the poems of Dalia is to be brought into the great circle of survivors; her words call up memories of arduous journeys and celebrations of victories won. In her poem, Time to Write, Dalia shares that she “once yearned for... Read More

The “afflicted girls” are the accusers in the Salem Witch trials. Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, and Mary Warren speak again in the author’s second book of poems. Cooley’s investigation of women’s voices under... Read More