Poetry has been around longer than history, so it’s difficult to find, or even imagine, a new theme for this old impulse. In every book of poetry by a single author, the individual pieces will speak of love, nature, faith,... Read More

Reading the first sentence of a short story by this author is much like being thrown into the deep end of a pool when you’re not quite sure how to tread water. “The Wild White Bronco” opens: “At the age of five, when asked what... Read More

Contingency planning is a must for every business, but rarely do workers have their own individual backup plan in the event they lose their jobs. This book is intended to help readers to proactively create a contingency plan to help them... Read More

Yusef Komunyakaa once wrote: “Don’t write what you know; write what you’re willing to discover.” This thought, coupled with Williams’s famous “No ideas but in things,” prepares readers to experience this poet. Bogen divided... Read More

“Too many doctors see women as a collection of hormones,” writes the author, “and thus regard the menopause as a deficiency disease that needs to be corrected by replenishing declining levels of oestrogen. Always bear in mind,... Read More

In the last century, a few years before cigarettes became widely popular, a professor of medicine visited a hospital ward in which he found a patient suffering from lung cancer. The professor immediately summoned one of his students,... Read More

These ambitious, playful, ingenious poems are not for everyone. Those who demand that poetry be “accessible,” no matter how clunky and cumbersome the ramps and railings involved, may well retreat from this poet’s vivid but oblique... Read More

The memories of sixteen writers, poets and artists of their country Christmases, ranging from the early years of this century through the 1940s, are a nostalgic mix of heartwarming stories. There is the warmth of the aromatic farm... Read More