There’s countless ways to assemble a collection of poetry, and there’s also the logical way: immerse yourself in one stimulating subject and use the poetic form as your method to ponder and explore. This week’s conversation is with... Read More

You’ve heard it before—the notion that writing short stories and poems is more difficult and time consuming (on a word-for-word basis) than writing novels—but you don’t believe it, do you? For the general population, especially,... Read More

Discusses Enlightenment Town: Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Improbable Place Let’s say you’re the president of your town’s tourism bureau and you’d like to attract a few more visitors. Easy, right? Just start a PR... Read More

Over recent years, the editorial team at Foreword Reviews has developed deep affection for graphic novels, mainly because longtime reviewer Peter Dabbene has opened our eyes to the intricacy and skill of the best artists/writers working... Read More

Like banking and agriculture, the medical industry is big business in the United States, with many tens of billions of dollars (both public and private) going into research, prevention, treatment, lobbying, and the like. But when it... Read More

Our increasingly urban society means that rural people are becoming a minority, and we all know what that means—stereotyping, oppression, othering, and general disregard. We see it playing out politically in the way Trump’s rural... Read More

Over his twenty-plus year baseball career, Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. caused a lot of jealousy in the Major Leagues because seemingly everything on the ballfield came easy to him. In the midst of demoralizing batting slumps,... Read More

Cooking is a dreaded chore for some, and many others take a nonplussed, let’s just get-’er-done attitude into the kitchen—the shopping, chopping, mixing, and heating are simply the means to a meal. How extraordinary, then, are the... Read More