Three mischievous monkeys perch on a roof in this large surrealistic scene. I love imagining their...

I’ve spent years trying to read the stories behind this scene my mother painted. An older couple...

What’s real? What’s deception? What is the sad-eyed woman trying to say? This playful Renaissance...

In a dramatic desert landscape, navel oranges form a whimsical pyramid on an African birthing...

For many years, this bright yet foreboding carnival scene hung in my childhood bedroom. My mother...

This painting by my mother, Louise Craven Hourrigan, inspired my poem “Perspective Dreaming.”...

I’ve spent years trying to read the stories behind this scene my mother painted. An older couple...

Jayne Marek’s In and Out of Rough Water is a moving and profound collection that transforms the...

Susan Terris says she selected “the most surprising poems I could find” for Spillway, volume 25....

This painting by my mother, Louise Craven Hourrigan, loosely inspired one of the poems in my...

As a child, I didn’t know what to make of my mother’s wild brush strokes. She didn’t title this...

How could I resist a poetry collection titled Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine? Even the table of...

I’ve always enjoyed the minimalist precision of Kate McNairy’s poems, but something really special...

…like a sun storm— like an Olympic medal—like Pompeii— like Pompeii before lava made love...

The day before the presidential inauguration, I learned that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey...

Responses to the election continue to flood Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. I’m...

Now in its 25th year, magazine is an exquisite, highly respected literary journal that publishes...

I was thrilled to have Salamander magazine accept one of my poems for an upcoming issue. But to...

I just have to love the cover art for Our Lives Became Unmanageable. The illustration was painted...

Every winter, my stepfather and I used to ride the Amtrak Auto Train from Lorton, Virginia to...