Chances are you have snippets of twelve-step recovery programs in your head, even if you’ve never set foot in an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting. Concepts like surrendering to a higher power and making amends for wrongdoings have... Read More

Rance is a young orphan growing up in a town called Cattleburg during the Depression. While out hunting one day, he gets lost, falls into a well, and is bitten by a rattlesnake. But before Rance passes out, someone pulls him out of the... Read More

Emotions of loss and images of aging echo throughout most of the poems in "Clouds, Rain" by Maria Maris. Although the collection is eclectic and sometimes repetitive, a strong voice and visceral language strengthen this beautifully... Read More

In Marcus Jackson’s first collection of poems, "Neighborhood Register", the poet reveals himself as no ordinary chronicler of the places and people and events that make up a neighborhood, for his love seeps into every chink in the... Read More

What a Woman Wants begins with a broken engagement. Dismayed by the inability of the men in her life to fully commit, Julia Se Pat embarks on a journey of the heart and finds herself on a constant search for love and answers. While... Read More

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J.T. Holden’s Alice in Verse both begin with an ending: “And now the tale is done.” Penned over a century ago, these words were never true and perhaps never will be: perhaps... Read More

As its title suggests, the poems in The Snowbound House contain images of dichotomies: cozy, frightening, warm, freezing. Relaxing in the comfort of home competes with thrilling danger. With the house as setting and metaphor, the poet... Read More

Matt Davis hails from hardscrabble rural Alabama not far from Murder Creek. The account of his early years confirms stereotypes about a place with more bigotry than indoor plumbing. Beginning as he did there is little reason to expect... Read More