Authority
Jeanne Murray Walker’s poem regrets how political decisions negatively affect the environment.
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Eve’s Side
In this poem by Rebecca Lauren, Eve speaks of creation.
A Review of Katie Ford’s Colosseum
Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”
Lighting the Way: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
The Road1, with its impersonal depictions of cannibalism and murder in the aftermath of an unknown apocalypse, is one of the most spiritual novels written in recent years. The contrast may appear stark: how can the brutally physical reveal that which we tend to conceive of as transcendent? There is a long-standing assumption, at least […]
Uprising
“The shirtless and barefoot people of the earth are rising up as never before.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.~ from Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? The shirtless and barefoot people of the earth are rising up as never before and they walk past signs that say NO SERVICE and they walk past lines […]