Fractals, by Gerry Sloan, River Oaks Press, Russellville, AR. Reviewed by Phillip Howerton Somewhere along the way in childhood I acquired a pen-sized microscope/telescope. This was one of my favorite toys. It was pocket-sized and practical, allowed me to look close and faraway, and lent perspective to mundane features of everyday life. Fractals, a chapbook of 36 poems by … [Read more...] about Book Review: Fractals by Gerry Sloan
Book Release Announcement Congratulations to Paulette Guerin on the release of her poetry collection Wading through Lethe published by FutureCycle Press. https://www.futurecycle.org/ Description In Wading through Lethe, a girl growing up in rural Arkansas learns to navigate life, love, and loss as she approaches womanhood. She leaves home to study and to travel. … [Read more...] about Book Announcement: Wading through Lethe by Paulette Guerin
Featured Poet: Dave Malone I was born in Rolla, Missouri. My family moved around quite a bit when I was a kid, and we landed in rural Kansas when I was six. My younger sister and I spent some amazing elementary school years there amid a farming community. Our home was out in the country in a remote development. From my bedroom I could see Tuttle Creek Lake. To the south … [Read more...] about Featured Poet: Dave Malone
Book Announcement: Field Trip by James Fowler Tentative Release Date: January 1, 2022 Description Set largely in the mid-South, this collection sees its characters traveling in place or outward bound as they strive to work through crises or simply avoid stagnation. Ranging from the Ozarks to the Gulf Coast, from the lowlands to the highlands of … [Read more...] about Book Announcement: Field Trip: Stories
By John Mort It was late March and warm. Jim watched the road. Sixty years before, give or take, he walked down that road to school. It was paved now, or rather pot-holed; the county would be wise to scrape off the asphalt and run a grader like they used to. Maybe the road wasn’t worth maintaining. It came to a dead end in less than a mile because of the Interstate, … [Read more...] about Dirty Old Man (Short Fiction)