Ever since Plato wrote The Republic in ancient Greece, literature has carried the allegory tale from one era to the next. It’s a form most often used in religious fiction, because it allows the author to sermonize on religious values... Read More

Although death is frequently evoked in Adrian Blevins’s latest collection, not even drowning can kill the speaker of these poems. As the title suggests, she is what’s coming live (electrified?) from the homesick jamboree. She is... Read More

Marge Wold’s poetry collection "A Girl Grows in Old Chicago" focuses on her early years. Here each street corner and each piece of family lore is remembered. The poems are as much a tribute to the city Wold grew up in as they are... Read More

For author retired minister and poet Michael Alan Paull to be human is to accept oneself with all one’s imperfections and become sensitive to the stirrings of desire in one’s spirit that mark the urge to grow and discover oneself and... Read More

“We all live in fear of shoreless feelings,” and in Halme’s second book of poems she attempts to provide these shores. Most prominent is Halme’s sensual commitment to language; her poems resonate with a phonetic lushness... Read More