“After working my way up from clerk to trader, combined with the advent of financial instruments known as index options, by age twenty-one I was a millionaire,” the author writes. Seldom since Jane Eyre’s quiet “Reader, I married... Read More

Golfers of the world will be heartened to learn that a cure has been found for the common malady “the yips.” The condition according to golf aficionado Kurt Pugh consists of “involuntary motions of the hands or wrists that can make... Read More

“Christophe slid closer to his brother, and when his arm slid along the length of Joshua’s forearm, for a second it was as if Christophe had touched himself, crossed his own forearms: toucher and touched.” Strengthened by each... Read More

In her latest collection of poems, "Twigs and Knucklebones", Sarah Lindsay revels in the pleasure of being omniscient. Writer and reader alike enjoy the privilege of superhuman knowledge in poems that blur the line between the apocryphal... Read More

The title poem of this collection immerses the reader in the Southern California milieu that the poet knows well. Details include endless miles of highway fast food restaurants cinnamon rolls “strollers and serapes” and crude... Read More

Fence Books tends towards the avant-garde, the young, the hip, and this collection of poems fits into the niche well. Huffman’s poems resist traditional narrative meaning, relying instead on the power of nuance, juxtaposition, and... Read More

In his now famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” scientist Lynn White laid the blame for the modern environmental predicament squarely at the feet of Christianity. White argued that the Christian... Read More

Surrealism began almost a century ago as very much a man’s movement, but poets like Brenda Shaughnessy have recently adapted many surrealist techniques for purposes that are distinctly womanly and all their own. "Human Dark with Sugar"... Read More