Reading Around

David Baldacci, in an Author’s Note at the beginning of A Calamity of Souls, says that he first began this novel more than a decade ago. [...]

I hold an envelope of words Seeds for reflection. We offer our palms to the wind As life forms. Spring brings promises to gardens and walks [...]

By Elisabeth Frischauf Moon takes his good time—he knows he’ll cover the sunshow all those good folkeyes behind black plastic [...]

Those who devoured Tana French’s stand alone mystery, The Searcher, hoped the novel was the start of another series. It was, and the [...]

By Leslie Prosterman On the day my poem finallyarrived in the Displacement issue of Fourth River (adv.),I froze waiting in line, early [...]

St. Nicholas, the fourth century saint (270 to 343 AD), is known as the model for Santa Claus. As legend has it, Nicholas once rescued [...]

By Leslie Prosterman  In the space of a blink I misslaid my cellular phone and a plate of grapes[down. Like eiders discovered in my [...]

[On Reading Mary Oliver, H.D., Emily Dickinson and Dorothea Tanning] Walking the path of poetic thoughts Entering the natural world [...]