BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

Photo by Hermann (Pixabay) * * Book Review Editor/Alan Britt                     Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch Knopf, 2014 Poetry (Longlisted for the National Book Award) Hardcover: 96 pages ISBN # 978-0385353571  ...
DIRT/Fiction

DIRT/Fiction

Dirty Hand by LeMast   * Dirt   “There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder.” Mary Douglas   By Peter Wortsman   “Dirt is the Devil’s diversion!” Miss McBride told us with a voice shrill as chalk on the blackboard...
Austin International Poetry Festival

Austin International Poetry Festival

* * We’re very pleased to present the work of three featured poets scheduled to read at the 23rd Austin International Poetry Festival: Allyson Whipple, Candy Royalle and Christopher Carmona. The festival’s headline poet this year is Nikki Giovanni, who will read...
Cain’s Vilification/Lerer-Smelcer-Young

Cain’s Vilification/Lerer-Smelcer-Young

© 2010 by Evan Henderson & John Smelcer; used with permission   Cain’s Enduring Vilification in Western Literature ** by Seth Lerer, John Smelcer, and Bard Young   Who is Cain? Why have so many cultures sheltered the myth of Cain in one form or another, the...
Stephanie Golisch/CNF

Stephanie Golisch/CNF

v You Come from a Beautiful Country by Stephanie Golisch   Ten in the morning and the sun broils my dark hair. I trail behind my husband, Chris, and our friend, Frank. We hike in silence through the meadows that skirt the mountains in the Guangxi province of...