Love Calls Us Here
The divine meets us in the real world and nowhere else, Anderson suggests in these poems, coming without fanfare and often startling us with its presence. When and where should we look for these encounters? Here and now. In our ordinary lives. In those everyday moments, now and then, when something suddenly stirs within us, […]
Space That Carries Light Forever
These days ‘nature poetry’ is often disparaged as irrelevant in modern society with the presumption that poets should be writing poems about humans: our suffering, our problems, our wars, prejudices, and injustices. In our culture of money, nature is mostly devalued as scenery or as an exploitable resource, a place to cut timber, extract minerals, […]
The Ping Pong Player and the Professor
Most Americans view ping pong as either a basement recreation or the focus of a fraternity-party drinking game. Yet ping pong is an Olympic sport and one of the most popular athletic activities in the world. The Ping Pong Player and the Professor is a quirky memoir about the adventures of a Jewish anthropologist and his son, […]
Refuge for Cranes
In Refuge for Cranes, Jerome Gagnon writes at the intersection of inner and outer landscapes, finding refuge in nature, art, and awareness itself. These are poems of wonder and alarm, in awe of the natural world yet full of concern for the harm we do to it, and to ourselves. They range in topic from climate […]
Meridian
Meridian is a collection of poems that reflects the poet’s deep and abiding love affair with the natural world. The poems draw on the alchemy that binds the visible and the invisible, capturing moments with people, places, and things that cannot be reduced and therefore diminished. Written over a span of years, the poems reflect the […]
The Invisible Fugue
At a time darkened by war, Ellen Hinsey’s The Invisible Fugue returns to questions of our endurance and what it means to be human. Like Czeslaw Milosz’s Treatise on Poetry, The Invisible Fugue lyrically reflects on the natural world around us, the possible celebration in the encounter with the other, our confrontation with time and the mysteries ever-present in […]
Heart Centered Business
In Heart-Centered Business, visionary entrepreneur Mark Silver presents a stirring and novel perspective on the business world. The effects of global business have helped to destroy the environment, undermine culture and family, and have left our hearts yearning for something very different than strip malls, strip mining, and pipelines. We yearn for beauty and real vibrancy […]
Higher and Friendly Powers
An expansive alternative for those who have struggled with the “higher power” of AA’s 12-step program, Higher and Friendly Powers offers a more flexible and practical approach, sparking our innate sense of human decency, our moral aspirations, and our longing to become better versions of ourselves. In Higher and Friendly Powers, Peg O’Connor addresses an audience much like […]
The Winding Way Home
When disaster strikes Jesse and Alexandra’s family, their lives shatter. Jesse’s grief triggers a full-blown psychiatric crisis, which spurs a most unusual spiritual quest in an attempt to find a way to feel at home in what suddenly seems like a cruel world. In the midst of her own trauma, Alexandra is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s […]
Wake Up Call
I’m what you might call a regular guy. For virtually all of my adult life, I’ve worked a nine-to-five job in an office. Yet, like many of you, I’ve been on a spiritual quest since I was in my twenties. Wondering if there might be more to life than the daily cycle of work-home-sleep-repeat, I […]