by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2015 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
The Meeting A gaunt figure, head bent, face obscured, walks through the withered grass at the edge of the field. I don’t know why I think it’s a he. The measured stride seems to suggest a certain sense of purpose. Where is he bound for, through our overgrown land? And...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
Bad Dreams I have found To be a mother is to fear all horrors. Served nightly on the television screen, the bruises, broken heads, and broken lives, stretched out to entertain, scene after scene; they peel their characters’ souls, peel back their...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | Reviews
Women are everywhere, doing all manner of tasks in all manner of ways. In this witty yet intensely moving collection, Cathy Bryant gives us sight of, and insight into, their many and varied lives. The book is presented in three sections:...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2015 | Reviews
Undisturbed Circles is Bethany W. Pope’s third full length collection and follows closely on the heels of her chapbook, The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press, 2014). It consists of six acrostic sonnet sequences, a form which Pope first unveiled in...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
Song of a Tone-deaf: for Allen and George Yuan There is often such a time when you, a no-songster Would want to sing aloud to yourself, a song That everyone else might also love to sing; the song Whose lines you never remember, nor can you Control your...
