The poems of "Inspired by the Holy Ghost" assure their audience that consistent faith in Jesus will result in personal salvation. Aimee Cabo Nikolov’s personalized poetry collection "Inspired by the Holy Ghost" is made up of Christian... Read More

Jackson’s poems work to reconcile the evil of the world with a poet’s life work—how to make sense, how to bear witness, how to give praise. This most recent of Jackson’s eleven volumes of poetry concentrates on... Read More

A balance of dark humor and a devastatingly sorrowful tone illumines the human condition in these elegiac poems. Appointed the first poet laureate of Missouri in 2008, Walter Bargen writes about humanity with a candidly chilling and... Read More

Readers must step into another dimension entirely in order to appreciate and receive the wisdom in Penny Gundry’s "Glimmers of Light Dancing", for it reads as though it is a long, highly developed guided imagery session. Take a few... Read More

An appealing young adult novel, "Wildfire!" follows thirteen-year-old Buddy as he spends a memorable summer with the grandfather he barely knows. Past hurts, misconceptions, and even a dangerous forest fire are a few of the obstacles... Read More

In the film, The Shawshank Redemption, the narrator recalls his first night in prison, saying, “When they put you in that cell, and those bars slam home, that’s when you know it’s for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of... Read More

Community members hold strong opinions about public education because they pay tax dollars into a system charged with the challenging task of educating their children. A traditionally conservative bureaucracy, the system tries to promote... Read More