Penny Holbrook, a British nurse and eating disorders counselor, wrote "Go On, Lose It!" as a tool for assisting her clients with their weight loss and self-improvement goals through a program she calls “Changing Shape.” The glossy,... Read More

Married love, the simple satisfactions of daily routines and habits around the home and garden, light and darkness, and ruminations about aging and dying give this third collection by Michael Millar substance and form. There are also... Read More

“There’s a hole in my heart, / a place where the dead hide / in their secret clubhouse,” writes veteran poet Carole Stone in the poem “Root,” from her latest collection, "American Rhapsody". The hole, made by the death of... Read More

Winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Paul Hoover, Karen Rigby’s debut collection simmers with disquiet and the cosmopolitan smarts of one who may be so self-sufficient in the hard world that she can write, “I... Read More

It’s a question that’s given rise to some of the greatest works of narrative art, as well as some of the crassest manifestations of popular culture, including most of today’s so-called “Reality TV” shows: “What are you... Read More

Art is antidote to our busy lives, says Timothy, full as they are with marketing and “hyper consumption.” She believes that art, and photography especially, can inspire or “sharpen our vision.” This is not a new observation, but... Read More

"The Freedom Business" (Wordsong, 978-1-932425-57-4) is a cross of forms encompassing an original narrative transcribed from a 1798 manuscript by the one-time slave Venture Smith, poems from Newberry Honor author Marilyn Nelson, and art... Read More

In a world saturated with mass-produced glossy images designed to catch one’s attention, the artist, of all creators, has an obligation to present his vision with a particularly lucid authority. John Hodgen’s poems countermand the... Read More