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Children's/YA
My Name is Layla
My Name Is Layla is a layered and powerful story set in present day, small town America. The point of view narrator is Layla, thirteen years old and starting eighth grade. Her dad named her Layla–the only thing he gave her. People tell her Layla is a poetic […]
Fiction
P.S. I Love You More than Tuna
When my partner Sarah and I moved across Canada, we brought our four cats along with us to live on Vancouver Island. All of them have passed on since the move fifteen years ago and yet we remember each of them with love. Each was unique, whether chatty […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Wherever the Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van
Part travelogue, part memoir, Wherever the Road Leads will satisfy any reader’s wanderlust. The author, Katie Lang-Slattery, and her then-husband Tom, traversed four continents in their VW bus from 1971-1973. I don’t have the courage to abandon my life to become an itinerate traveler, but I revel in […]
Reviewed by: Janilyn Kocher
Erythra Thalassa: Brain Disrupted
Ms. Berkovits’ recent chapbook presents a moving chronological memoir in poetry that parallels her own journey from despair to hope and acceptance of her adult son’s tragic hemorrhagic stroke. Some of the poems are meditative; others, cries of anguish–but all capture a mother’s inner struggle with the realities […]
Poetry
Driving through Paintings
We are all artists— casting spells here and there leaving a part of ourselves Somewhere… -from the poem “Letter” With the collection of 39 poems in Driving through Paintings, writer and artist Leslie Klein invites us on a thoughtful, often intimate, journey through moments spanning her […]