Interstices
by Dorothy Howe Brooks
A chapbook of poems.
Website: dorothybrooks.org
Interstices
A Fine Dusting of Brightness
by Dorothy Howe Brooks
The title of this collection, A Fine Dusting of Brightness, also opens an extraordinary poem of literary description and exposition focused on Vermeer’s painting The Cook. These poems embody ekphrasis even when the subject of the poem is not a visual work of art. Many of the poems consider loss–the failings of age or sickness–and death, yet vivid observations become surprisingly juxtaposed images and skillful irony. [more]
That’s My Story, And I’m Sticking to It!: Fennimore . . . As I Remember (Volume I)
by Tom Nelson
During the four decades since Tom Nelson left his hometown of Fennimore, Wisconsin he has returned countless times. Now he revisits once again to recount his younger years during the 1940’s and ’50s. These were times when in a small Midwestern town farmer families shopped on Saturday nights while their children went to a double feature movie. The men folks congregated at the local billiard parlor and wives sat in parked cars on main street gossiping with neighbors. [more]
