Prairie Son, winner of the Mid-List First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction, honors its Minnesota roots with an unflinching look at the rural, often poverty-ridden lifestyle of the twenties, thirties and forties. Where much Depression... Read More

Nola was so exciting and confirming for me as a nonfiction writer that I wanted to set this review in the context of some of the current issues evolving around creative nonfiction. It is an important text because it unites story and... 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