Review of Blood Runs Coal by Mark A. Bradley
Review written by Karen Weyant Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle For the United Mine Workers of America; a review By Mark A. BradleyW.W. Norton & Company,…
On Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Deborah Sarbin An apocalyptic poem might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but when it’s as wise and comforting as U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World ends here,”…
Review of Sensational: The Hidden History of “Girl Stunt Reporters”
Review by Karen Weyant https://www.amazon.com/Sensational-Hidden-History-Americas-Reporters/dp/0062843613/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2M8N6GLEEPDBT&dchild=1&keywords=sensational+the+hidden+history+of+america%27s+girl+stunt+reporters&qid=1622469345&sprefix=the+hidden+history+of+stunt%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1 HarperCollins, 2021 Kim Todd When I was 12 years old, I read a biography of reporter Nellie Bly. This book, geared towards young teenage readers,…
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.…
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…
A Review of Marilou is Everywhere
Review by Karen Weyant Marilou is EverywhereSarah Elaine Smith Penguin Random House, 2019 Cindy Stoat lives in a rural Pennsylvania home with her two brothers and a mother who is…
I’m Just Lucky to Own My Own Car – A Review
Peggy Zortman reviews I’m Just Lucky to Own My Own Car – a first book by Joe Taylor I recently purchased this short book (about 100 pages) at Watershed Books…
40 Patchtown: A Novel, Reviewed
Review of 40 Patchtown: A Novel by Karen Weyant Damian Dressick | Bottom Dog Press | 2020 [T]his story draws readers into a world where miners struggle in poverty, scrounging…