Book in Progress, Part 9: Selling the Book
Joe Taylor The Writing End Game Why do you want to write a book? Because you have something the world needs to hear? You want to entertain readers with a…
WANA Presents David Drayer Thursday, April 29 Live at Watershed Books
by Christina Fisanick Now in its second year, WANA LIVE!, the reading series of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia, continues to bring the region’s top writers, musicians, and book…
Review of This Crazy Devotion
By Jess Weible, author of Dead Letters: Delivering Unopened Mail from a Pennsylvania Ghost Town Originally featured in the Mirror as part of the Books from the Pennsylvania Wilds column.…
Spring 2021 Edition Letter from the Editors
Our literary magazine has always stood for inclusivity and diversity of representation, and we are so proud to introduce our twelfth issue, which we believe embodies the heart of our…
In April’s Snow-filled Light
On Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World" Philip Terman Today is the first of April --not only April Fool’s Day, but the first day of what has been called…
Why I Write NOW
Ann McCauley I have a sign above my desk, ‘Today we do what we must… Then someday we can do what we want!’ After reading that sign, my grandchildren have…
Do You Validate?
Guest blogger Stacey Gross I remember when I was a kid we had this parking lot in town. I’m from Warren, Pa., so understand that the majority of my downtown…
Vertical Bridges: A Review
Paola Corso's Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps, a review by Karen Weyant Pittsburgh has been called the “City of Bridges.” But it should be also called the…
A Review of Sanctity: Poems from Northern Appalachia
a review by Byron Hoot Sanctity: Poems from Northern Appalachia, by Patricia Thrushart, calls to those who know the woods and to those who have forgotten that call within themselves. …
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The Ides of March, 2021
Patricia Thrushart “Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.” — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, c. 1599…