Category: Poetry

by CG FEWSTON September 7, 2018
Fiction Pictures Poetry

Selected Poems of Rūmī (2011) by Jalāl’l-Dīn Rūmī & the States of Grace

“The soul says to her base earthly parts, ‘My exile is more bitter than yours: I am celestial.’”

by CG FEWSTON September 11, 2015
Non-Fiction Pictures Poetry Videos

Fields of Blood (2014) by Karen Armstrong & Is Religion the Cause of All Major Wars?

A compendium of history, politics and religion since the dawn of the agrarian age in human civilization.

by CG FEWSTON August 19, 2015
Non-Fiction Pictures Poetry

Oracle Bones (2006) by Peter Hessler & the Tears of Regret for the Poet Chen Mengjia

“Recovery, in all its varied forms, is simply a human instinct.”

by CG FEWSTON August 6, 2014
Fiction Pictures Poetry

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

Holden is a grieving young man unable to cope with his brother’s death and much like Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury, we watch a sixteen-year-old Holden as he indirectly contemplates suicide over the course of a few days.

by CG FEWSTON April 27, 2014
Fiction Poetry

The Greensboro Review: Fall 2013, Issue 94 (Price $8.00 usd) & the NC-Greensboro Syndrome

The University of North Carolina – Greensboro’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing publishes a poetry and fiction review called The Greensboro Review. I happened to read the Fall 2013, Number 94 issue, having received a copy only because I paid a small fee to have my own fiction submitted to the review.

by CG FEWSTON March 8, 2014
Fiction Poetry Videos

Candide (1759) by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]

By keeping it to a much smaller scale, Voltaire is able to enforce magnetic and grandiose ideas in a line equivalent to a line in poetry.