An exceptionally well-developed character, Allie is on a never-ending quest for understanding that tests her strength, faith, and courage. Thirty-year-old Allie McDuff knows what she wants … kind of. An elementary school teacher in a... Read More

Memoir marries social science in a profoundly helpful way. Deborah Serani combines her own history of childhood depression with her vast experience as a child psychologist to create an insightful and practical guidebook for parents of... Read More

Ruth Stone, born in Virginia in 1915, has published thirteen collections of poems. Winner of the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships, she... Read More

An irrepressible splash of color links the forty-two poems in this new collection, an appreciation of the play of refracted light evident in many of the titles: “The Pomegranate,” “Black Cherries,” “Baroque Pearl,” “The Red... Read More

Good poems can be timely or timeless, and sometimes both. Bad poems are rarely either. Confronted with an unknown poem by an unknown poet, the curious reader, once having decided whether he does or does not “like” the poem, may ask... Read More

If English Romantic poets still dominate the landscape of modern poetry, it is because theirs was the first to dramatize the mind’s interior act of self-creation, of the imagination being self-consciously born into language. They were... Read More

A Line of Cutting Women is a refreshing, rich, satisfying collection of 37 short stories published over the last two decades by CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. It contains a great mix of voices including Jewish, Mormon,... Read More