Creating Without Suffering
Anger can be intoxicating, a fire that burns you from the inside out until your nothing but barely flickering embers, but once you're...
Nature as a Revealer of Truth
Marci Batchelor's poem "Storm Shelter" is a descriptive narrative that details the way the world bends under a storm from the hole in...
Literary Death
Death is inevitable for everything, all except for Isabel Houck's family and the moon. In this poem, the narrator describes a woman's tie...
In America We Trust
I apparently have a huge attraction for Katie Johnson's writing. Written a year after "Drawing of Jude", this poem makes me want to make...
Confrontation
This was one of the hardest things I've ever read. I picked Glyph by random off of the shelves in C-11, and once home, days later, I...