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Perspective: The Two, The Only: Calvin and Hobbes

By Megan Willome 16 Comments

winter morning new snow white trees

With a new year on the horizon, Megan Willome is off for a fresh clean start and a little exploring. By sled, of course.

Filed Under: Calvin & Hobbes, Perspective, poetry

Perspective: ‘Charlotte’s Web’ is a Medieval Novel

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Charlotte's Web miracle grass sparkles

“Charlotte’s Web” a medieval novel? Join author Megan Willome as she gives a different perespective on the classic story.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, Children's Authors, Perspective

Perspective: Found in Translation

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Pfeiffer Beach sunset

Nothing is lost in translation in Maria Dahvana Headley’s contemporary rendering of “Beowulf” — backward, in high heels.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, Perspective, Seamus Heaney

Perspective: The Poet Takes a Bike Ride

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Vancouver Island forests

How does a poet gain perspective? Megan Willome takes a bike ride—in Canada. Share your August reads, fellow poets!

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Essays, Perspective, poetry, Writing Life

Perspective: Letters of Three

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

three pink flowers

Parenting is hard—sure—but writing believable parents is hard too. Megan Willome writes letters to three sets of fictional parents.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Children's Stories, Fiction, Perspective, writing prompt, writing prompts

Perspective: Character in the In-Between

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

sheep sunrise misty morning

Sometimes the best place to develop character is in an in between space—be it the multiverse or the bardo. Come rediscover President Lincoln.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, book reviews, Perspective

Perspective: A Tale As Old As Time—’Tess of the D’urbervilles’

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

cattle in green field

The tale of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is a tale as old as time. That’s why we still need its perspective.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Perspective

Perspective: The Madness of Don Quixote

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

three horses in a field

Madness is the coin that opens our hearts to story. Join us as we consider the madness and sanity of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Classic Books, Perspective

Perspective: ‘In the Company of Crows and Ravens’

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

shy girl golden trees

Truth, beauty, and science co-exist in magical ways in Tony M. Marzluff’s “In the Company of Crows and Ravens.”

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Bird Poems, Blog, book reviews, nature, Perspective, Poetic Earth Month

Perspective: When Authors Keep Secrets

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

chase water at sunset

It’s one thing when a narrator keeps secrets. It’s another when an author keeps them. Join us for “The Remains of the Day.”

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, book reviews, Perspective

Perspective: Agatha Christie’s ‘Death on the Nile’

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Japanese couple celebrating Kanazawa

Like a poet, Agatha Christie doesn’t waste a single detail. Join us as we read “Death on the Nile” through the theme of Perspective.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Perspective

Reading Generously: Perspective Glass

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

stairs to nowhere, China

This year we are reading generously through the theme of Perspective. Grab your perspective glass and join us.

Filed Under: Blog, Perspective, Reading and Books, Reading Generously

Generosity of Perspective: Not So Scared

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

two-blue-boats-on-river

Callie Feyen reflects on Frankenstein, Auggie and Me, and the generosity of perspective in understanding another and being human together.

Filed Under: Blog, Generous

Donald Hall and Andrew Motion Write Poetic Memoirs

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Sicily Islands Motion Hall

I’m not sure why I first started reading memoirs by major poetic figures, but I recently read two that struck me as particularly significant in the development and history of what we consider contemporary poetry.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Fairytales, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work Day, poetry reviews, Poets, work poems

Reading Poets’ First Collections: Hedy Habra and Andrew Calis

By Glynn Young Leave a Comment

red Nassar

The first collections of poets Hedy Habra and Andrew Calis both take you to a different place and make you see in a different light.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Andrew Calis and “Which Seeds Will Grow?”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Seed stalk

In “Which Seeds Will Grow?”, poet Andrew Calis looks beyond human understanding to find hope in a hopeless land.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Holiday Gifts for the Poet in Your Life (or the Poet in You)

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Snowy woods holiday gifts

Our intrepid poetry reviewer offers some highly personal holiday gift suggestions — or the poet in your life or the poet in your heart.

Filed Under: article, Book Love, Books, Christmas Poems, Holiday Gifts, Poems, poetry

Poets and Poems: Robert McDowell and “Sweet Wolf”

By Glynn Young Leave a Comment

Mountain lake McDowell

“Sweet Wolf: Selected & New Poems” demonstrates the power of a good story, and Robert McDowell’s ability to tell one.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Bruce Lawder: Prose Poems, (Very) Short Fiction, or Both?

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Balcony Lawder

“Dwarf Stories” by Bruce Lawder is a collection of prose poems that are creative, perceptive, thought-provoking, and wry.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Fiction, Poems, poetry, Poets, ProsePoems

Poetry Prompt: Aisling—Vision or Dream

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

celtic necklace

The aisling poem is a vision or dream poem that features a woman as one of its central images. Come pen an aisling with us. We might feature your poem!

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