Michael Edwards returned to the English tongue for his last book of poems, At the Brasserie Lipp (2019), after years as a French-language author. English revived many nerves of memory, and in Another Art of Poetry he explores them further, in ten chapters, each consisting of continuously numbered sections. There are 194 sections, so we can read the book as a continuous sequence, as ten discrete poems, or as single lyrics and epistles interspersed. There is something Augustan about the appr...

Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences 'this in- / fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely present, spots of time which vivify him and his past.Through memory and poetry he experiences revelation of a Christian depth. England is a familiar yet now a foreign country: the author having written for years in French. 'English becomes / a strange tongue echoing readily with names / gainrising with ...

A poetic journey through memory, culture, and faith.Seated in the iconic Brasserie Lipp, Michael Edwards delves into the depths of memory, bringing past moments to life with vivid intensity. This collection explores the intersection of personal history and the present, revealing profound insights into identity and the human condition.Through evocative language and striking imagery, Edwards navigates the complexities of cultural identity, shaped by both Engl...

A former Ford Foundation director takes a critical look at the role of for-profit companies in philanthropy—and exposes the troubling risks and downsides.A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by bringing the magic of the market to philanthropy. Nonprofits should be run like businesses, its adherents say, and businesses can find new sources of revenue by marketing goods and services that benefit society. What could be wrong with that?Plenty...

This special 20th anniversary anthology invites you to journey outside yourself: float in a capsized rowboat, downward-dog through a yoga studio adapting to covid-19, reflect on the legacy of residential schools, find purpose on the Camino de Santiago, and make peace with your raccoon neighbours. These are stories of ego, loss, birth, renewal—the salient issues of our time.In emerge 20, stories in fiction, narrative non-fiction, speculative fiction, young adult fiction, poetry, and...

A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar.The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there are the Psalms and the Song of Songs, the great exhortations and lamentations of the Prophets, and passages of poetry woven in throughout. In the New Testament, Jesus describes the kingdom of heaven with poetic epithets such as “a t...

Christianity is always untimely, always foreign to our beliefs and contrary to our desires. It was untimely in Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome when Jesus and his early followers were killed. It is just as untimely now. But we have become deaf to its otherness, to the disruptive strangeness of Christian faith. If we are to hear it again, we must traverse the distance between our comfortable and overly conceptual Christianity and the true Christianity that "turns the whole world upside down."

Chased by a dangerous creature from reader's POV. A second person narrative horror story for my readers

Visits by a Native American ghost leads to a discovery of a burial ground underneath a carpenter's house.

Josef Stalhouse is a black knight serving for the Kingdom of Brock in the country of Cegresh. During his occupation of territories in Young Timberland, his long animosity of the elves is put to the test when Aelua Urifina of Tesch village comes to parlay for the return of her people.

With the Kitsune and the demons gone from Snowfelt. The humans enter the virgin territory of turning on one another. With Hikaru Takeda and her clan stuck in the middle.

A farmer's life takes a dramatic turn towards revenge. Only the possibility of potential love will reveal her fate.