From the beginning of his day to the end, Tony faces problems: no breakfast left for him, a crowded car ride to school through a hurting neighborhood, adults who misunderstand him, a possible confrontation with a bully. Through it all,... Read More

“At a time when business cannot even fix itself, one wonders why anyone should believe that it can fix the rest of society and its institutions,” Michael Edwards writes in "Small Change", his response to the rise of... Read More

Too often, American readers and writers are unfamiliar with the work of writers from other English-speaking traditions. The anthology Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (978-1-55458-033-0), from Wilfrid Laurier University... Read More

Poet Richard Carr weaves together lovely and unlikely connections in his Gival Press Poetry Award winner, "Honey" (978-1-928589-45-7). Wrinkled plants, a goldfish and the poet drink water while outside, “The clouds rain gasoline.” A... Read More

This book is said to read like a novel, and so it does. "The Red Canoe" is a narrative of Handlers marriage, and we learn to love and follow her characters through the pages of their journey towards understanding. This is definitely... Read More

Derr-Smith takes us everywhere: Damascus, Iowa, Berlin, the Boundary Waters, Chicago, Virginia, Cairo, Sams Club. And everywhere she goes, she paints a world rich with image, scent, and desire. Named for the Minaret of the Bride in the... Read More

In this, the fourth and final volume of Daviss Opening King David series, each poem responds to a phrase from the Psalms. The relationships between the poems and the epigraphs are glancing, tangential, but evocative. These poems, many of... Read More

Gregory Orr, prolific author and a man who has endured much personal loss, continues to write about the human predicament in spare and loving language. “Grief will come to you. Loss? You can be certain of it,” he writes. So “no... Read More