The bags are packed and the car is loaded. It’s going to be a long day, though, and the kids start getting restless an hour into the trip, just the time to open Todd’s new book. With more than seventy-seven games and activities,... Read More

All the characters in this volume of poetry, whether the author created them or not, have a commonality of realness, in the sense that they evoke a personal, human truth. “Mulroney,” the title character, is not a very complex fellow,... Read More

Of those poetry collections in the ecstatic genre, Sandra Alcosser’s "Except by Nature" is one of the best, deserving of its recent selection for the National Poetry Series. Poets of the ecstatic often craft images and language around... Read More