Back in WWII, 20 year old solders had a different mindset. They were never hesitant, seldom afraid, always eager to test themselves, whether it was with a new place or a new woman, (or a new drink). [more]
What are you looking for? I think you’ll find it here in Richard H. Fox’s second poetry collection, wandering in puzzle boxes. They’re all present and accounted for: the poems of love and loss, health and healing, identity and homage, the lyrics and the narratives intertwined. When this speaker tells me, “I want to wear Coke-bottle glasses, corneas blue whale eyes,” I believe him. In fact, I’d follow this man down Alligator Alley and the Massachusetts Turnpike. [more]
Faith dances with apostasy in this collection of poems by Dorothy Howe Brooks. With welcome honesty, keen intelligence, and language as clean as a mountain stream, she takes us through familiar religious terrain–Scriptures, Christian tradition, questions regarding the nature of God and where that God may be found in this day, in this world–stimulating both the agnostic and the believer, with special attention to the women of the New Testament.
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Website: dorothybrooks.org
