New Zealand native Craig Piercy has produced over 300 poems since 2004, when he began writing with no prior experience or training. Piercy is clearly a good-hearted, loving, self-aware person; his intentions here are noble and his themes... Read More

Leo Tolstoy wrote, “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” Love is the most basic human emotion, and the most essential human connection. This collection of poems touches on many different forms of... Read More

Once a year in America, everyone is Irish. No other heritage is embraced so completely as the Irish are on St. Patrick’s Day; no other US ethnic group holds a nationwide annual celebration. The unique identity of the Irish in America... Read More

This poet contemplates the natural world with deep and soulful attention, and then, with simple words sparely arranged, verbalizes the relationship between Earth and the human spirit. She provides the modern voice of the spirituality... Read More

This little book, as lovely and precious as a violet picked by a young child’s entranced fingers, features nearly 200 selections of prose pieces, poems, blessings, and readings gathered to welcome and honor children. The editor, a... Read More

Children are as certain of magic as they are of reality, and they crave to be heard and taken seriously. Many adults, in turn, crave to recapture that youthful, confident belief in magic. Both these cravings are fulfilled in this... Read More

The author had resided on Cape Cod for years in admiration of the famous nature writer John Hay, who lived up the hill from him. Despite Gessner’s previous publications—<I<Sick of Nature and Return of the Osprey, among... Read More

In a painting by Raphael, Saint George rides forth from a town on his white horse and slays a hideous, voracious dragon. Or … is that Saint Michael, who also slew vicious mystical beasts? Viewers in Renaissance times would have been... Read More