Allison Smythe

The Novelist Sets to Work

I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man […]

Cara Strauss

Huddled against Death

Mourning death is dramatically different around the world, as is the care people need in the face of death.

Christina Cook

Tomatoes of Kobarid

A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.