In “The Guest House,” he compares humans to homes in which emotions are guests we should welcome like friends. In a poem ...

Others are portraits of grief, such as an Iraq War vet who eats his pastrami sandwich with mayonnaise to honor his best friend who was ... Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

His poems start at home, as all good poems do; as Homer's did, as Shakespeare's, as Goethe's, and as Baudelaire's; but they end up everywhere, as only the best poems do. This is partly because his ...

In this original short story, two best friends on the high school dance team chart different paths but come together for a ...

Danielle Chapman’s lustrous memoir is at its best when she holds her family’s Confederate history up to ...

As Hávamál, a 10-century Norse poem, advised ... the adoption of a best friend forever, and the thrill of sharing in an imagined community with like-minded fans. All capture the same impulse ...

Dannye Romine Powell on Monday, July 6, 2015. Powell, a poet and former longtime Charlotte Observer book editor and columnist ...

There’s no greater downer on a wedding than hearing a reader drone on forever ... to do your best? At first glance, Ian Duhig’s marriage ditty is not the most romantic of poems - but it ...

An interview with the acclaimed Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha, whose new book distills the experience of Palestinians living ...

Like a storm-battered ship, the hull of middle-age powdering on the jagged rocks of the advancing years, the tide of time ...