Struggles with Faith, Indignities, and Loss:
Three New Books of Poetry Paul Allen. Ground Forces. Cliffs of Moher, Ireland: Salmon Poetry, 2008. 100 pages, $22.95. Cathy Smith Bowers, The Candle I Hold Up to See You, Oak Ridge, Tennessee: [...]
To Bill Matthews
Ave atque vale; hail and farewell dear friend. When William Matthews died on November 12, 1997, one day after his 55th birthday, writers and friends everywhere grieved that we had lost the [...]
Listening to the Night
Each night he would step out into the dark to listen for something he could not name or know or comprehend. He would then stand there with the darkness surrounding him until the house sounds were [...]
Newton Smith
Newton Smith is Chairman of the Faculty and teaches professional writing and literature at Western Carolina University. Smith has published his poetry and criticism in a number of literary [...]
Salutations and Cornpone on Parnassus
A Review of Jonathan Williams’ Blackbird Dust Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, and Photographs, by Jonathan Williams. Turtle Point Press, 2000. 243 pgs. $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-885983-49-2 It [...]
