New Christmas Legend by John Pengelly
A New Christmas Legend is a didactic religious allegory that reimagines the Nativity not only as a sacred historical event, but as the spiritual origin of a global movement toward social justice, democracy, and universal brotherhood. The narrative begins in the final years of Roman peace under Augustus Caesar, when the birth of Jesus is…
Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld
Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld is a collection of Yiddish poetry centered on the lives, struggles, and aspirations of working-class immigrants and laborers. Rosenfeld draws on his own experiences to portray poverty, exhausting work, family hardship, love, and the hope for a more just society. Written with strong emotion and social…
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking argument for the intellectual, moral, and social equality of women. Wollstonecraft challenges the prevailing belief that women were naturally inferior to men, arguing instead that women appeared less capable largely because society denied them meaningful education and encouraged them to cultivate…
New Christmas Legend by John Pengelly
A New Christmas Legend is a didactic religious allegory that reimagines the Nativity not only as a sacred historical event, but as the spiritual origin of a global movement toward…
Keep readingSongs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld
Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld is a collection of Yiddish poetry centered on the lives, struggles, and aspirations of working-class immigrants and laborers. Rosenfeld draws on…
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In Flint, Michigan, an often forgotten and ridiculed rust belt town, Oliver, an aging shopkeeper, notices a fleeting female figure in the night as he leaves his bookstore. He is…
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You have read many fairy tales, some of them very beautiful and some that frightened you with their horrible giants and goblins. But never, I am sure, have you read…
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In his fourth full-length collection of poems, Rustbelt Surrealist, Glen Armstrong, celebrates jazz, country western, and great heaps of rock and roll music. Here, he taps into the soundtrack of…
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The poet, Katherine Cary grew up in the coal mine country of north eastern Pennsylvania. The Cary’s were somewhat of a prominent family in the area. Kate seemed drawn to…
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